Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 23, under Business & Finance, I read where Marjorie Post Close Hutton Davies was a tall woman of 52, but on p. 49 under Milestones I find the same lady listed as 48. Is it possible she could have mislaid four years of age in ten pages of printing...
This question was the title of a paper read to the American Sociological Society in Manhattan last week by Professor Pitirim Alexandrovitch Sorokin, head of Harvard's Department of Sociology. Russian-born, bespectacled Dr. Sorokin asked 106 Federal employes to state how much time they would devote to various activities the following day, checked predictions against facts. Findings...
Casualties. To the coaches, Professor Floyd R. Eastwood of New York University, who has been compiling statistics on the subject for five years, read the results of his investigation of football deaths and injuries. In the 1935 season, 30 players were killed, five more than in 1934. There were 55,440 injuries to players on 66,000 high school teams, 9,900 injuries to players on 829 college teams. Injuries caused footballers to lose a total of 1,000,000 days of education...
British editors first buried the Lindbergh story briefly on inside pages. As soon as they caught the drift of U. S. opinion, they promoted it to front pages, began editorially looking down their noses at the U. S. "The shock millions of Americans received when they read the news of Lindbergh's departure," pontificated the London Daily Herald, "is comparable only to what would occur in Britain should the Prince of Wales announce he was no longer secure in his own country...
...audience appeared to love it. Here was a slender, sinuous Carmen who looked like a gypsy. Here was one who took the prize for vulgarity, elbowing guards in the stomach, whistling hoydenishly, spitting out fruit skins, wriggling her hips. Most effective scene was when she read death in the cards, gave the toujours la mart all its tragic implications. Most debatable costume was a slinky black velvet affair with a top like a bullfighter's jacket. This she chose for the final act as a symbol of her submission to Escamillo, the toreador...