Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...York, Director Byoir had built up the thing which distinguished this relief movement from all others, an amazing machine for disseminating propaganda. National Broadcasting Co. and Columbia Broadcasting System alternately placed at his disposal two 5-min. periods a week. Seven or eight national radio advertising periods were daily devoting 30 sec. to his use. Hundreds of daily papers were carrying employment box scores on their front pages. Scores of magazines had volunteered to further the cause. Twelve hundred billboard services had done likewise. Donated was $250,000 worth of car card space. Director Byoir, who said his present organization...
Mitchell and Frank Craven. Actors Mitchell and Craven have hair which habitually looks as if they had just gotten out of bed, and each possesses an authentic whiskey baritone. Actor Mitchell is Chief of Detectives McKinley. Actor Craven is his crony, a local police court reporter. There follow 90 min. of peerless melodrama and comedy...
...yard free style-won by B. S. Wood '33; second, Strong (P); third weeks (P) Time-2 min...
...addition to the relay, Wood swam the 220 and the 440, maintaining a narrow lead over Strong of Penn in the latter event to win by a two-foot margin in 5 minutes, 16 seconds. Wood won the intercollegiate 440-yard championship last spring with a time of 5 min., 4 sec. and if he swims in this event against Yale is likely to take first place. Yale made a clean sweep of the first a year...
...correct interpretation of successive cryptic clues concealed throughout a house or over the countryside) was made more elaborate by using automobiles. Last week the Pylon Club of Philadelphia, organization of sportsman pilots, applied the game to the air. Sample clue: "Fly 5° south of east for approximately 8 min. where you will pick up a Catholic Church located between two golf courses. From this church, lay a course 25° east of north. . . . You will come to an airport where you are to land and pick up your next clue...