Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris Times (which padded 50 daily words of wireless into a full page of U. S. news) had folded in 1929" (TIME, April...
...fact the Paris Times, for four years was a kind of daily TIME, giving to each item of news that background and elucidation necessary for comprehension-or entertainment. Now, ten years later, American newspapers are discovering the value of the formula and hailing it as a discovery. The Paris Times was a pioneer in the daily field, as TIME was a pioneer in the weekly field...
...England to Portsmouth. Royal Air Force planes soared the skies. All were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface to show where they are. (A buoy located the Squalus.) The crowd around the shipyards grew bigger. After 15 hours the first news came ashore. Fourteen miles off Great Ormes Head, Wales, the destroyer Brazen had spotted something in the sea. It was not a buoy but part of the Thetis herself-her tail, sticking in the air like a diving porpoise...
...chamber. He and six others, with messages of the submarine's plight strapped to their wrists, were to act as human marker buoys, dead or alive. Of the seven, only Captain Oram and three others reached the surface. He was surprised to find the Brazen standing by. That news was also flashed ashore...
...green quite like their shade in late May. A pastel tint, they lay, deepening the bollows to a hunter emerald. So she made garden throughout the morning, busy with tulip and dahlia tubers, hollybook plants to draw the bees, and the bitter tansy. The grocery boy came by with news of a herring run down at the Gut. He sniffed. "Seems like it's spring, I guess." "Ayea," game her noncommittal assent from, the kitchen door...