Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, after doubling the Los Angeles enrollment, efficient Mrs. Mudd was named at the national convention in Philadelphia as president of the Girl Scouts. Her program: new emphasis on the home as the smallest unit of democracy; training of Girl Scouts as homemakers rather than campfire-tenders. She re-emphasized the less glamorous, more practical side of Girl Scouting: not knot-tying but helping Mama with the dishes. On this program the rank & file were not consulted...
...icebergs and bitter cold. They made a Danish flag, painted out the U. S. flags on the ship's side, altered her funnel, changed her name to Alf. They got jittery watching for British warships, put a time bomb in the engine room to blow up their prize rather than surrender her. After eleven days they arrived, not in Germany, but at Tromsö, Norway, flying a German flag. Authorities here saw through Flint's disguise, let the prize crew take fresh water and debark their British prisoners (with whom Mr. McConnochie escaped), but insisted that...
...currently absorbed with the study of extrasensory perception (telepathy, clairvoyance, prophecy), believes it possible to identify this phenomenon with Humanism. It has been Dr. Potter's custom to brighten his services by such devices as using rosebuds to baptize babies. He has made his Humanists work at their rather insubstantial faith by devoting themselves to self-improvement (through art, music, etc.) and to human improvement, through cooperation with "progressive" organizations. Hence Dr. Potter chose, from among 20-odd causes recommended to Humanists, the six rosebuds represented at last week's meeting...
...English translation by Monsignor Patrick Hurley of the Papal Secretariat of State, the encyclical was a lofty and solemn statement of Christian, rather than exclusively Catholic, doctrines for a world beset with "difficulties, anxieties and trials." He mentioned by name only two nations, "our dear Italy" and "our dear Poland." The great body of his encyclical Pius XII devoted to an examination of the "spiritual and moral bankruptcy of the present day," and of two "errors" in particular which menace "the peaceful intercourse of peoples...
This squeeze may be a sign rather that the Japanese are desperate than that they are smart. They might lose their silk market forever. Last week in Wilmington, Del., Du Font's sheeny, much-publicized nylon hosiery went on sale at $1.15, $1.25, $1.35 (for different gauges), sold quickly when salesgirls claimed that one pair of them would outwear four of silk, that they would dry in ten minutes when washed. As material for full-fashioned hose a previous silk substitute, rayon, was a lame competitor to silk but nylon and its brother synthetics now in prospect...