Word: protractedness
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Fat Mrs. Myrtle Huddleston is the world's champion endurance swimmer among women. Five years ago. aged 30, she took her first swimming lesson. The next year she swam 36 miles across Catalina Channel in 20 hr., 42 min. She won the ocean championship at Del Ray Beach, Fla...
The protracted dickering over who shall rehabilitate U. S. Lines and complete the process of getting the Government out of the shipping business (TIME, June 29 ct seq.) continued all last week. Chief developments were: 1) a hitherto untold chapter of U. S. shipping history; 2) an apparent shift of...
Screen comedians reach a crisis when they graduate from two-reel comedies to six-reel feature films. Funnymen Laurel & Hardy emerge from the crisis as funny as ever but no funnier. Their incapacities, hilarious in earlier and briefer studies, seem protracted in Pardon Us: they have added nothing to their...
In contract bridge, a player inevitably supplies his partner with information as to the cards he holds by the way in which he bids. Systems-such as the Vanderbilt convention, the various methods of Lenz, Work, Whitehead, et. al.-are codified kicks under the table, designed to make bidding reveal...
Freight Rates. Only by a blanket percentage increase in all freight rates for all roads as was done in 1914, 1917 and 1920 can the carriers obtain the necessary relief, they said. Joint water-&-rail rates and existing differentials would be maintained. The Commission, however, was asked to approach the...