Word: lulls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yale's new Peabody Museum, the skeleton of Brontosaurus excelsus, a huge plant-eating dinosaur, was placed on formal exhibition by Director Richard Swann Lull.? Discovered in 1881 in the Como Bluff, near Medicine Bow (Wyo.), Yale's Brontosaurus was the first of its genus and species made known to science, is the type specimen. It is nearly 70 ft. long, weighs 6½ tons, is 120,000,000 years old. The skeleton remained unmounted until the University could provide a sufficiently large and substantial place for its display. Another smaller Brontosaurus is in Manhattan's American Museum of Natural...
Geneva, the stage of countless international productions, is at present in the condition of the theatrical platform when there is a lull between the periods of intense action. Minor plots, and threads of plots, all-essential to the main action, and yet not commonly associated with it, are now taking place. With naval problems being relegated to the rear of the stage, Foreign Commissar Litvinoff of Russia has advanced towards the footlights, and for the past week has been affording foreign correspondents not a little glamour to color their often monotonous dispatches...
...there is a lull while the two opponents take each other's measure. In London the Conservatives are retrenching. Under the whip of Winston Churchill's tongue they have shown signs of refusing to support a roundtable conference in India as was promised in the course of the London conference. In India the Mahatma seemed to have made peace with the Viceroy only to announce formally a few hours later that this was only a truce and that absolute independence from the British Empire was still his goal for India...
...subterfuge of en titling her soldiers "sailors," build up an army of unlimited size. Where do we stand? In vain Count von Bernstorff argued for Germany last week that it would be better for the Com mission to admit failure and go out of existence than to continue to lull the peoples of the world into a false belief that their statesmen are advancing toward Disarmament and Peace. Said a spokes man for Count von Bernstorff: "Better a failure and the knowledge of where we stand than this endless prolongation of discussion!" Without daring to propose anything so radical...
...last, during a lull, M. Tardieu by raising an eyebrow signaled one of his Deputies who quietly proposed that the Prime Minister make the next vote one of confidence. He did so, won by a majority of 48, not astounding but sufficient. Quick as a magician producing a rabbit, M. Tardieu drew from his pocket and read to the Chamber an executive order signed by the President of France, genial Bachelor Gaston ("Gastounet") Doumergue, adjourning Parliament until November...