Word: personent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...least afraid of incurring libel suits, for he claims to have consulted legal authorities on the matter. "Also, the school committee probably realizes that you should never sue a person for libel, for he's 'libel' to prove he's correct," punned Kerins...
...Jesse James, the Outlaw and its sequels, Missouri's famed train robber was portrayed as a morally delinquent crook. Producer Darryl Zanuck naturally takes a kinder view of Jesse's failings. Purified in the person of Tyrone Power, Jesse James emerges brilliantly in Technicolor as an amiable brigand, genuinely devoted to his aged mother and generally more sinned against than sinning...
...meteorite ever striking an automobile, or for that matter a vehicle of any kind; and the first where its end course could be accurately measured from three established points penetrated in its fall. We also believe Mrs. Crum came nearest to being actually hit by a meteorite of any person on record in this country...
...unhappy. When depression brought a worldwide price war, they formed a Tea Marketing Bureau which stabilized the trade until the Government began slapping on increasing duties. This brought an immediate 5% decline in British consumption, though it remains the highest in the world-over five cups a day per person. Then, from the Orient came the most serious threat since China closed her ports 100 years...
...With the governments of the major tea-growing nations (except China and Japan) putting up $1,000,000 annually for promotional activities handled by a Tea Bureau, U. S. imports were boosted back to 95,000,000 Ibs. in 1937-about four-tenths of a cup a day per person...