Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...April the case was tried in Manhattan Municipal Court before Referee John M. Cragen. Vigorously Plaintiff Gillman challenged the findings of Contest Judges Walter K. Van Olinda and Andrew J. Davis, both of whom had a hand in preparing the Funk & Wagnall's New Standard Dictionary. The courtroom rang for a fortnight with such words as: aha, ama, hep, aim, ani, pah. Aha, said Plaintiff Gillman, was either a sunken fence a religious service, or an exclamation. Ama was a wine vessel used in the early Christian Church, also a medical term for "an enlargement of the semicircular canal...
...perfect they fooled tellers. In the last four years it was estimated he had circulated about $1,000,000 in bogus bills, including a $20 note with which Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau fooled his underlings (TIME, Sept. 9). ¶In Newark, N. J. police headquarters, a telephone rang and a man's voice said: "I've just killed three men. Come and get me." Police sped to the address he gave, found four slug-riddled corpses. After investigation they concluded that Charles Geary, angry because an aunt had left him out of her will, had killed his brother...
...Agriculture Henry Agard Wallace estimated that this year's farm cash income would top last year's $6,200,000,000 by $500,000,000, a little more than half that of the 1920's, but close to twice that of 1932. And from the State Fairs themselves rang a jubilant affirmation of better times for the farmer...
Amelita Galli-Curci needed no advertising after 1916 when she made a memorable debut with the Chicago Opera Company. In the years that followed, her singing rang through most of the civilized world, earned her the rating of the world's greatest coloratura soprano. She sometimes sang a little off pitch and she was not a good actress but her beautifully pure, light voice, her vitality and the lean, aquiline face of an Italian aristocrat got her $4,500 for a single concert. For a comparatively small salary she stayed with Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera Company until...
Last week when Dr. Pavlov rang his bell in Leningrad, 1,500 physiologists perked up their ears, demonstrating how bell-conditioned they were to expect a speech. Dr. Pavlov told them what he had told the neurologists in London fortnight before, that dogs have the choleric, sanguine, phlegmatic and melancholy temperaments which Hippocrates discerned among ancient Greeks...