Word: nextly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Ivor Novello, have been yanked up on the stage to bray it out. Novello, composer of World War I's Keep the Home Fires Burning, has written a new marching song, We'll Remember the Meadows, which will be introduced at the opening of his new show next week...
Hospital doctors examined them, reported them to the Board of Health as dysentery cases. Next day the number had tripled, and State Welfare Director Archibald Leonard Bowen, knowing that many modern doctors do not recognize a case of typhoid when they see one, at once chlorinated the hospital's water supply, sent a truckload of typhoid vaccine to the hospital. But it was too late...
Once or twice during the next few weeks she raised her lids, but her eyes were blank. Frantically Mrs. Yarrington shook her, called to her, but Maxine slept on. She had Encephalitis Lethargica, probably caused by a filtrable virus, a type of sleeping sickness for which medicine knows no sure cure...
...burst in the transmitter cooling system, and WBBM had to go off the air. Almost immediately WBBM's switchboard was swamped with calls, all asking, "Who was the murderer?" The phone girl had to call CBS in Manhattan, whence the program had been coming, to find out. The next hour she spent replying: "The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . . The murderer was Mr. Wiggins. . . ." Next day WBBM called back another thousand who had left their numbers, reporting Mr. Wiggins' crime with trimmings...
Clothiers have predicted that men's suits will be up $5 apiece by spring. If so, that rise will cost U. S. consumers about $280,000,000 in the next twelvemonth. All sections of the wool industry last week appeared to be shearing their percentage of this fine clip: raw wool skyrocketed some 60% for the benefit of wool growers; yarns were up 45% to 50%, sweetening the pot for the spinners; and when the U. S. Army went into the market for uniform fabrics, it found prices up about 30% over the bids it could have gotten Sept...