Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fellow newsmen felt confident that the Krock story was accurate in direction if not detail. Certainly it did not exaggerate the might & main which Franklin Roosevelt has been exerting to save the peace of the world. Last week Raymond Leslie Buell, research director of the Foreign Policy Association, went so far as to give Mr. Roosevelt full credit for averting war at least twice: last month and just before Munich (September...
...send up to the firing line. Barr is rather light but makes up for it with a steady all-round game. It any one part of his game stands out from the rest, it is his putting. Thompson in heavier and longer off the tee, but again his main forte is consistency...
Among the crews that the varsity will have to face, the two main contenders will be Navy and Cornell. Both of these crews have given indications of real potentialities in recent races...
...there were 5,000,000 radio-equipped automobiles. The three main arguments against auto-radios are that they divert the driver's attention from the road, prevent him from hearing warning signals, preoccupy him with tuning manipulation. But four counterarguments for auto-radios were found: they 1) induce slower driving; 2) break the monotony of extended or night driving, prevent drowsiness, promote attention, interest, alertness; 3) soothe motorists during extended traffic jams; 4) silence backseat driving. Motor-vehicle commissioners in 38 States failed to find any accidents directly attributable to auto-radios...
Pressure. New York's fair is a private business venture set up by 121 incorporators with a board of directors, officers and all the other main adjuncts of an ordinary business enterprise except that it is "nonstock, non-profit," pays no taxes...