Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...grandfather's pet pastime at dinner was to pick news stories apart. "Mrs. John Jones has been ill for some time" he would read. "What the devil does some time mean?" was his protest. "A week or a year...
...trying to get a Catalan army to take the field. At a bound the capture of Belchite set Sebastian Pozas right among the hierarchy of the Valencia Government, seemed to make him a figure very much to be counted on in the next few months. This was hard news for extremists. Sebastian Pozas won his general's sash long before the civil war. Privately he hates anarchists as much as he hates foreign fascists...
...first day he appeared at Saratoga he won the astounding sum of $108,000. On another day he won $50,000 and on the closing day $15,000. Admiring Bookmaker Tim Mara told how Bettor Rooney had been talking football to a friend at the Saratoga rail when the news was brought to him that the horse on whom he had bet $12,000, had won but had been disqualified. Rooney went on talking football. On another occasion he nipped a coin to decide where he would place...
...open one week ahead of time because the Board of Education, performing a Chicago miracle; discovered in its kitty an extra $900,000 which could pay salaries of its often unpaid teachers for the extra week. Five days before the scheduled opening, Chicago's schools made unexpected news when Board President James B. McCahey announced that they would remain "indefinitely closed" because of a threatened epidemic of infantile paralysis (see p. 35). President McCahey's order brought much pleasure to the city's 619,000 hale pupils. To the Carpenter Elementary School on Chicago's West...
...Associated Press newspapers use a logotype, AP, to label AP stories. For nearly 40 years AP has been trying to make its symbol mean as much on newsstories as "sterling" means on silver. Unnoticed though it is by hurried readers, the little logotype can even by its absence make news...