Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Recent nightly "straight news" programs from British Broadcasting Corp. in German, designed to counteract the distorted news given by the Nazi officials to the German public, have had a welcome reception in many a German home. BBC has received a surprising number of unsigned letters from German listeners urging it to continue the broadcasts...
Summing up in Science, Dr. Gregory noted that the idea of a comparatively recent divergence of man from the anthropoid stem is generally repugnant to "that self-conscious and conceited prig who calls himself Homo sapiens and is fond of acting like the viceroy of God." He points out that some scientists who ought to know better keep toying with the idea that, during the general evolution of the vertebrates, a sort of separate channel was set aside for the line which was eventually to flower...
More startling was a recent radio capture. Four desperadoes in jail in Omaha slugged their guards and got away. Soon law & order and law's new kibitzer, radio, were hot in pursuit. First word of the escaped convicts came by telephone to radio station WOW, reporting them heading toward Gretna, 23 miles southwest of Omaha. Soon police, newsmen and radio newscasters with mobile transmitters were on the trail, among them WOW's dapper News Editor Foster...
...foreign representation has mounted in recent years. This year there are 258 foreign students, as compared with 249 last year from 44 foreign countries and U.S. possessions, 221 the year before, and 207 the year before that...
...recent letter from a young lady to one of us was concluded in what we thought was a most unusual and interesting manner. Quote: "Gooey Gobs of Purple Passion...