Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Shortly the banks became alarmed about their loans, installed their own brewery management in the person of Garnett C. Skinner, a high-powered adman who had capped a spectacular career in the Hearst organization with eight months experience in a small Chicago brewery. When Adman Skinner took over, Prima was selling 30,000 bbl. of beer per month. Under Adman Skinner, who made a $35,000 salary before he was 40 as advertising supervisor of all Hearst evening and Sunday newspapers, Prima's sales dropped swiftly to about 5,000 bbl. per month. Losses mounted and Prima was finally...
...problem by taking a soft wax cast of the defective mouth. He makes a thin gold plate for the hard palate and a flattened, hollow gold bulb for the soft palate. He solders these together and anchors them to the upper teeth with lugs. When uttering words, the person who wears this device imperceptibly clenches his throat muscles. For practice he utters the word "giggle." This shuts off the upper pharynx. In inhaling, the throat is relaxed as in normal individuals...
Navigator Noonan's wife was cheered when she received some photographs from her husband, mailed weeks ago from the Far East. There was also a letter. Excerpt: "Amelia is a grand person for such a trip. She is the only woman flyer I would care to make such a trip with because in addition to being a fine companion she can take hardship as well as a man?and work like...
...First person to cross the U. S. in an autogiro...
...triennial convention nine years ago the Protestant Episcopal Church appointed a Commission on Marriage & Divorce to whittle down its Canon 41, which stoutly enjoined Episcopal pastors from solemnizing the marriages of divorced persons. Under the chairmanship of Michigan's grey and liberal Bishop Herman Page, the commission consists of sixteen churchmen and laymen including Colorado's Bishop Irving Peake Johnson, Missouri's Bishop William Scarlett, longtime Director of the Russell Sage Foundation John Mark Glenn, onetime (1917-21) U. S. Ambassador to Japan Roland Sletor Morris, and Justice Origen S. Seymour of the Connecticut Court of Common...