Word: main
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...main event of the meet will be a handicap treasure hunt, with only qualified pilots entered. Information is handed out at the start which gives a clue to the first destination. The flyers will not have to land on any field not an airport. Sometimes directions will be laid so that actual landing will not be necessary. After the order of ordinary treasure hunts, the first plane returning to the starting point having fulfilled the requirements is the winner...
...Fairbanks, who owns a freighter and a South Sea island and who "does what he does when he wants to do it," tries to convince Miss Dunne, highest star in the Broadway heavens, that she should shake the call of duty to her career and her family. His main hurdle lies in showing her what leeches and rodents are her family, which she keeps in antiques and good liquor. Success is his, by means of a rousing drunk, Hollywood's perennial ice-breaker, which occupies most of the picture...
Outside of Congress, main figures in the fight against the Reorganization Bill were as extraordinary as the uproar they helped promote. One was Publisher Frank Gannett, who backed up his fulminations against the bill throughout his chain of upstate New York papers with something called the National Committee to Uphold Constitutional Government to lobby against the bill under directions of a $400-a-week propagandist named Dr. Edward Rumely. The other was famed Father Charles E. Coughlin who emerged from his retirement to make two radio speeches on the subject. Coughlin speeches and Gannett literature produced a record-breaking flood...
...Main feature of the House Tax Bill passed last month was eliminating the undistributed profits tax in all but principle. Main features of the Senate Bill were...
...smooth illustrations, the Post stories that hold up best are those in which the authors throw probability to the winds, along with romance and deep thoughts, and go in for straight, oldfashioned, O. Henry farce. Except for the humorous stories and the tales of Thomas Wolfe and Walter Edmonds, main impression communicated by Post Stories of 1937 is one of uniformity, as if the 22 stories and the 479 closely-printed pages had all been cut to pattern by the same expert, precise, unexcited writer...