Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...until late at night could rescue crews go into the village, for like a pile of firecrackers, ammunition dumps sputtered and banged erratically long after the main fireworks were over. When at last some sort of order was restored, there was little to be done but gruesome counting: 48 known dead, 32 at the point of death, 440 seriously injured, 800 homes destroyed, 8,313 persons left homeless. Completely wrecked was an insane asylum...
...more papers (though he denies it). But with total daily circulation of the Hearstpapers down from 5,153,676 in 1936 to 4,368,086 last year (Sunday circulation was up slightly to 6,714,430), the retrenchment of Hearst is almost over and Trustee Shearn's main task for a good many years will be to pay bills, reduce bonded indebtedness and get Hearst's real estate out of hock. Whether he can do that depends on readers, advertisers and creditors. Readers are fickle and advertisers scary, but the banks and newsprint manufacturers who are Hearst...
...Main obstacle to Engineer Miller's complete conquest of U. S. radio is the fixed belief in the radio business that the listening public, conditioned to "live" shows, will never learn to respect recorded entertainment. But Engineer Miller is old enough (48) to remember a similar objection 30 years ago to the motion picture...
Contrasting vividly with the main feature, "Pacific Liner," is a dramatic adventure story with the crew dying of cholera, passengers "dancing on the lid of a coffin," and Wendy Barrie in the midst of it all looking very exotic...
...main complaint we have against Harvard is that they don't help us to find work during the summer. If they're going to lay us off for three long summer months, they either ought to pay us more or find us summer jobs. Fourteen dollars a week doesn't leave us much to save for the college vacation...