Word: quarter-hours
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...Horned Mines. Quite naturally, no one in the Highlands believed the Italian, and at war's end Nessie popped up again. As recently as last August the austere Times of London reported that 15 tourists had watched Nessie gambol in the lake for a full quarter-hour...
...Technicolor tear for the good old days of plus fours, prohibition and the stock-market crash. The story, about a Broadway show, employs nearly every musical-comedy cliche -from romantic misunderstandings between Doris Day and radio's Gordon MacRae to pratfalls by Comic Billy De Wolfe. Every quarter-hour or so there is a big production number...
Just before 11 p.m. he reported on course over Battle Creek, Mich.; a quarter-hour later, when he was starting across Lake Michigan into the storm, he asked air traffic control for permission to drop a thousand feet from his assigned 3,500-ft. altitude. CAA said no, there was too much traffic already running at the lower level. Neither Pilot Lind nor the 57 others aboard was ever heard from again...
Station Break. In York, Pa., convinced that radio station WORK's broadcasts were interfering with the electrical gadgets in his house, Holmes Gibson walked five miles in the rain to the transmitting station, interrupted broadcasting for a quarter-hour by pulling the switches...
...Watford, Clem made a quarter-hour speech and the Hillman collected the first of the many bouquets that were soon to fill its back seat. From Watford the Attlee's road led to Wolverton and thence to Coventry. At each town border, local police escorts were waiting to pick up the Hillman...