Word: life
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...want to be picayunishly meticulous, although I am a college professor in civil engineering and a highways man (not to be confused with highwayman), but shouldn't your TIME, Nov. 13 description of the farm life of Artist Dahlov ZorachIpcar that she "does not milk or drive a car," have a comma after "milk," or read "does not drive a car, or milk" ? Or has Ford done something bovine to his autos...
...blasting out the defender's landing fields. In leaflets dumped on Helsinki, the Russians threatened mass bombing with 800 planes if the Finns did not capitulate at once. Should that come and the Mannerheim Line be broken, the Finns must retire to their forests and fight for life like the Indians of North America...
...Characteristic part of Balkan political life is the student demonstration, often a bought-&-paid-for affair. At Belgrade, university students broke up a meeting of the Yugoslav Friends of France. Yugoslav authorities suspected Russian agents were responsible, arrested 50 students, put the autonomous Belgrade University under direct governmental control...
Petrouchka, the puppet who came to life, had a counterpart in China last week. After months of adjusting the wires and setting the stage to dangle Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei before Chinese eyes, the Japanese were dismayed to see him wriggle a bit, stand up on his own legs, and come right out with some shockingly out-of-character statements...
Divorced. Eleanor ("Cookie") Young Bacon, 21, first Manhattan society Glamor Girl (1936); from Socialite Robert Ogden ("Bunty") Bacon Jr., 24, after eight months of married life, in Hailey, Idaho. It was her first divorce, his second...