Word: palme
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...built a practical radio as small as a wristwatch.* But last week, a National Bureau of Standards physicist announced that scientists had come close. A tiny new "skeleton" set, no bigger than a pack of cigarets, could be hidden in the palm of one hand, said...
Died. Jesse ("Now You Can Be Taller Than She Is") Adler, 60, the little man (5 ft. 5 in.) who took thought and added two inches to the stature of the little man (himself included) with Adler Elevator Shoes; of coronary thrombosis; in West Palm Beach, Fla. Famed for wit as well as product, Adler wrote a weekly chuckler ("Jesse Adler Looks at the News") for 106 newspapers...
Last week two respectable gentlemen, trustees of a will, were in Winter Park, Fla. poking and prying about Rollins College's palm-studded campus, trying to dispose of a body...
Only France and South Africa held back. Foreign Minister Georges Bidault merely said France was "prepared to study" trusteeship terms for her slices of Togoland and the Cameroons (rubber, cocoa, palm oil). With Gallic eloquence, he painted a picture of French colonial idealism and native happiness that was somewhat at variance with the facts. Forced labor and high taxes actually caused natives to flee by tens of thousands...
...eminent naturalist and author (A Naturalist at Large, That Vanishing Eden), director since 1927 of Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in Boston. One of the worst of his many bad moments with reptiles in many lands: his giant boa went AWOL in a Palm Beach-bound train...