Word: reade
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...topnotch prodigy. He did not begin to talk until he was 20 months old but when he did, according to his mentors, he rattled off complete, grammatical sentences. By his second birthday, with help from his letter blocks, none from his parents, he had taught himself to read. Bunny's most startling exploit occurred shortly after that when he sat down at a piano, worked out a system of musical notation, using a different number for each note. Today he is a chubby, serious lad with a mental age of 16, a conversational level above that of the ordinary...
...Treaty last week and, finding this denunciation good, had sent it to the Privy Council. Only a miracle could stop Japan from scrapping the 5-5-3 ratio and starting a naval race. No miracle man, Ambassador Davis contented himself with a speech well calculated to make everyone who read it remember and reflect upon certain homely facts...
...just why a fellow-Bolshevik had slain Stalin's friend. Rumors that the act sprang from a "private grudge" were circulated by the Kremlin, but public curiosity for the real facts was so strong that every news kiosk was surrounded as soon as fresh papers arrived. Eager Russians snatched, read and flung down tons of papers in disgust when they proved to contain only propaganda, such as this telegram from beyond the Arctic Circle: "WE SHOCK BRIGADE WORKERS ON THE NEVA HYDROELECTRIC STATION PLEDGE OURSELVES TO COMPLETE IT AHEAD OF TIME AS OUR ANSWER TO THE DASTARDLY ASSASSINATION OF COMRADE...
Last Sunday that pledge was read aloud by priests at mass in thousands and thousands of Roman Catholic churches in the U. S. And, uprising, millions of Catholics repeated the words which, in the eyes of their Church, bound them all for one year...
Dealers in Death (Topical Films). Cinemaddicts who do not read books, magazines or press reports of Senatorial investigations will doubtless find this picture of the tricks of the munitions trade newsworthy. To others the work of two young independent producers named Harold Kusell and Monroe Shaff will probably seem like cold hash...