Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the savage Loeboes of Sumatra a child fell ill. When it failed to improve, the muttering family repaired to a stone beneath the house which seemed to mark a grave, poured hot water on the stone. A European observer who witnessed this ceremony inquired its significance. The natives told him that the stone marked the place where the child's afterbirth had been buried in a rice pot a few months before, that the baby's continued illness was obviously due to the fact that ants were stinging the afterbirth, that the hot water would drive...
...formation, flying from his yacht a signal meaning "THE ENEMY IS IN SIGHT." No enemy was ever sighted, but the big guns pounded away at H. M. S. Centurion, a target ship controlled by radio. Of 320 "dead" shells fired at the Centurion, 56 hit the mark. Last of the maneuvers was the one stunt feature of this month's air, land and sea reviews. The King, who despises stunts, barely consented to watch a new-fangled gadget called a Queen Bee zip off the deck of an aircraft carrier and fly without a pilot by radio control...
...engage in a good-humored but energetic rivalry. Curt Devlin first gets an advantage by identifying the mystery woman in the case from the perfume on the dead man's coat. Then Ellen Garfield catches up by finding the woman's whereabouts by means of a laundry mark. Finally their efforts to outwit each other lead to a sequence in which, before the jury has announced its verdict in the trial, the presiding judge is flabbergasted to find it prematurely bannered in both the Star and the Express, in headlines which flatly contradict each other...
...district of Shizuoka, 100 miles southwest of Tokyo, nine persons were killed, 101 injured, 125 houses destroyed. Mr. Greenspan had predicted other temblors "in Turkey, Italy and around the Mediterranean" to take place on or before July 14. In that case he seemed to be shooting all around the mark because minor temblors actually occurred on July 13 in Rumania and Bulgaria...
...careers which reached their tragic peak in the fateful year 1929, none had been more exciting than Ray Long's. A poor boy from a small town in Indiana, he had quickly made his mark in the newspaper business as "boy editor" of the Cincinnati Post and Cleveland Press. Then he splashed brilliantly into the fiction magazine field, running through the spectrum of Red Book, Bine Book, Green Book. On Armistice Day 1918, William Randolph Hearst succeeded, after several years' dickering, in hiring Editor Long for his Cosmopolitan. In the eleven years that followed. Editor Long made...