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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...student found this out the other day when composing a message which he intended to pack a considerable wallop. He remembered gloomily that the Federal Communications Commission had laws about forceful language, and he decided to put his problem to the Western Union girl point-blank...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Crime | 1/27/1939 | See Source »

...article for the London News-Chronicle, "1939-What Does It Hold," H. G. Wells suggested a possible solution of the world's present ills: ". . . The immediate fate of hundreds of millions of people hangs upon the unchecked impulses of a mere handful of men. You could pack the whole lot of them into an ordinary aeroplane. It would be a tumultuous load, but if you could contrive a crash for it the alleviation of human trouble would be disproportionately vast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 9, 1939 | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...tongues of savants, quotes Latin, law, manages to be humorist, poet and picker of winners. John's radio foray revealed him further as a Shakespeare scholar, an expert on birds and nature, a walking record book on sports, the most dependable know-it-all of Information Pleased omniscient pack...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Kieran & Co. | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

...right, Geer, pack up. You're coming with me," snapped the Dean of the University police from under his Tyrolean hat, the moment he arrived on the scene. "Don't you know you shouldn't be hero?" he added. According to earwitnesses, Geer immediately lost the beautiful English account which had graced his sales talk. "I didn't know that at all," he protested...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Colonel Apted Swoops Upon "Geer" After Emergency Call From Claverly | 1/9/1939 | See Source »

Window Shopping (by Louis E. Shecter & Norman Clark) tells of a near-bankrupt department store which, as a desperation publicity stunt, has a young girl live by day, then undress and sleep by night, in one of its windows. The girl packs the store with customers. It will be more of a trick to pack the theatre with them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Play in Manhattan: Jan. 2, 1939 | 1/2/1939 | See Source »

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