Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hours and ten min. with STALIN, after which. Mr. Shaw told newshawks, who discerned, through his beard, a red necktie: "Well, we found that he wears a black mustache...
...applejack war. In Troy last month Gangster Diamond was acquitted of a part in the same crime on the strength of an alibi supported by a "physio-therapeutist" who has since become the State's target for perjury proceedings (TIME, July 27). It took only 40 min. and one ballot for a jury of indignant farmers to decide the Scaccio case. Verdict: guilty. Gangster Scaccio faces a minimum imprisonment of ten years. He and his chief will be tried in Manhattan this week for conspiracy to violate the Prohibition Act. Last week Diamond was at his fortified home...
Yellowstone National Park's Splendid Geyser, after 39 years silent digestion of water, steam, rock and heat, last week labored and threw up a 100-ft. spout of steaming water. Daisy Geyser nearby, which has been erupting every 100 min. ever since white men have known it, paused. After a two-hour delay Daisy went to work again. Old Faithful, some distance away, faithfully continued its 65-min. spouting, but small geysers, boiling springs and mudholes nearer the Splendid were drained of their waters. Two park employes posted themselves beside the Splendid to record its behavior...
...idea. Throwing his leg over the arm of his chair and scratching the back of his head, he reasoned that secondary education should be more vital, more effective. Last year his idea became a plan (TIME, Aug. 18). Lake Forest's recitation periods were extended to 90 min., 45 min. being devoted to discussion and preparation of the next day's lesson. Staggered and rotating, the school schedule was revised to permit all subjects to share equally the advantageous hours of the day. As a proper setting for the plan, the dingy, formal old schoolroom desks in Reid...
George William Hill (The Big House, Min and Bill...