Word: munro
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, Captain Donald John Munro, R.N., C.M.G., opened the 1938 season by issuing a prospectus for Loch Ness Monster Co. Captain Munro announced that he would soon issue shilling shares to finance active research. He proposes to build three lookout towers, each equipped with a telephoto camera, range finder, stop watch, powerful binoculars, sound apparatus like that used for detecting the presence of submarines. L. N. M. Co. will determine Nessie's size, her speed of travel, and whether she is, as various eyewitnesses and scientists have declared: 1) an elephant seal which swam in from the North...
...they give it to young, ambitious girls, they encounter another difficulty: they seem either presumptuous, as if doubtful of the talents, charm and intelligence of the girls they are advising, or sentimental in assuming that modern girls do not know what it is all about. In Listen Little Girl Munro Leaf, 32-year-old author of Ferdinand (bestselling children's book), avoids these hazards by dismissing moral and emotional considerations at the outset, tells his girls what they can expect to find in Manhattan in the way of jobs, rent, food & lodging. A profound and sympathetic student of Manhattan...
...Others. Third ambiguity of best-seller lists is that they ignore children's books and the reprints sold in drugstores, cigar stores, newsstands. Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, currently selling 5,000 copies a day, alone rings up more sales than any ten "best-sellers," and Munro Leaf's Ferdinand, at 2,000 each week, ranks with Cronin's The Citadel and Sinclair Lewis' The Prodigal Parents...
Second Period 3 Queens Miller (Williamson) 17.00.4. Queens Poupore (Munro) 18.30.5. Harvard Patrick 19.09. Penalties Hepburn...
Third Period 6 Queens Williamson 2.45.7. Queens Williamson (Munro) 15.00.8. Queens Munre 16.30. Penalties Miller...