Word: quiets
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...apart from the unprecedented behavior of Bolshevik bigwigs who never before have attended Embassy functions, was an abnormally candid speech "made privately" to 700 Soviet industrial managers by the newly appointed Commissar of Heavy Industry Valery I. Mezhlauk (TIME, March 8). Since 700 people are too many to keep Quiet, it was soon learned that Comrade Mezhlauk had dropped some strong hints as to the next Moscow Old Bolshevik trial, intimating that the Ogpu's efforts to wring confessions are being "strenuously resisted" by the two star prisoners, onetime Soviet Premier Alexei Rykov and onetime Soviet No. 1 Editor...
...introversion scale, eight added by Willoughby. Samples: "Are you self-conscious in the presence of superiors?" "At a reception do you avoid meeting the important person present?" "Are you afraid of falling when you are on a high place?" "When on vacation do you enjoy yourself better in a quiet place?" The questionnaire was presented to more than 500 single women aged 15 to 75. Last week Dr. Willoughby set forth his findings in Character & Personality, a psychological quarterly published by Duke University Press...
When Tilden and Perry left the court an hour later, Perry would have been justified in calling Tilden the "world's best bad player." Tilden had received more applause (before the match started), attracted more attention (by telling a radio announcer to keep quiet), hit the hardest drive (when he needed a point badly in the third set). But of the four sets played he had taken only the third, which the crowd suspected Perry of dropping on purpose. Score...
...impressions. Winner is one Georgia Smith (Shirley Ross) of Birch Falls, Iowa, who wants romance not pineapple. Imperial Pineapple orders Tony to provide it. When crooning fails, he stages a mock kidnapping by the natives, who accuse the "Pineapple Girl" of stealing the black pearl which keeps their volcano quiet. The kanakas carry the two men, Miss Smith and her loud companion (Martha Raye) to an isolated island to appease the erupting volcano. Miss Smith finds romance, to the vast relief of Imperial Pineapple...
Three years ago, when Pan American started to lay out the China line, a small cutter steamed quietly out of Honolulu, headed for the South Seas with a crew of aviation experts. Months later they were back with reams of preliminary data about weather, harbors, landing bases. Still no mention was made of any airline project, for in New Zealand Pan American's representative, Harold Gatty, the quiet Australian who flew around the world with Wiley Post (TIME, July 6, 1931), was engaged in the ticklish job of persuading that British Dominion to give landing rights to Pan American...