Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral William Daniel Leahy let Congress, and the world, know that the U. S. Navy plans to build two 45,000-ton, 880-foot battleships. They will be 10,000 tons heavier, 130 feet longer, and better armed by three guns than any of the six battleships now being built for the U. S. Fleet. They will be bigger even than the two 42,000-tonners which Britain has laid down. And as the President explained at a press conference, Japan is reportedly building three ships of around 42,000 tons, refuses to tell other powers just what size they...
Most moving: The words of Florence Nightingale at 70, shrill, wavering, full of emotion: "When I am no longer even a memory-just a name-I hope my voice brings to history the great work of my life. God bless my dear old comrades of Balaclava and bring them safe to shore...
Their next meeting of importance occurred at a party given by Hollywood's famed Countess di Frasso in 1935. By this time, Carole Lombard had divorced William Powell and Gable was no longer living with his wife. Countess di Frasso's guests had been asked to come in something white. Carole Lombard arrived in a white ambulance, wearing a white nightgown, lying on a white cot which was carried in by three white-clad interns. She and Gable danced together all evening. Later, Lombard had the ambulance decorated with a red heart and sent it to Gable...
...professional gamblers professed to like Dorothy Paget's Kilstar, an 8-year-old brown gelding which Miss Paget bought last year for $1,500 from a cavalry officer who could no longer afford to keep him. Kilstar stood firm at 8-1, but England's shillings rained down on H. C. McNally's Royal Danieli, which last year lost by a mere neck to Battleship. By race time the odds on Royal Danieli had been backed down from 20-1 to 10-1. A decent bet, too, but not over popular, was Merseyside-Irishman Sir Alexander Maguire...
...Washington as in Wall Street, S. F. Porter has long since ceased to be an unknown columnist. No longer is there any real mystery about the pronoun. Yet last week, when Harpers published an able, informative tract freely sharing some of a recognized expert's secrets on How To Make Money in Government Bonds ($3), Author Porter's special secret was tactfully kept...