Word: resting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Only 18.8% believe that the Roosevelt Administration should "continue with more reforms along the lines already laid out" (FORTUNE). Of the rest 40.5% want to "try nothing new," 26.9% want conservatives to "undo the damage already done," 13.8% don't know...
...Willmott's informants were the editors of The Arrow, latest of British weekly newssheets, recently started by the diplomatic correspondents of the Manchester Guardian and Yorkshire Post. Latest issue of The Arrow to reach the U. S. says that German air mobilization is now 95% complete, that the rest of the mobilization program is now progressing on this schedule...
...concert he returned in a panic to his hotel room, where he immediately started to practice for his second appearance. The other guests banged angrily on their radiator pipes. So he went out again, woke up the watchman at the Steinway Piano Company's warehouse, and spent the rest of the night practicing by candle-light in a loft where the pianos were stored...
...year-old husband's voice on 3,105 kilocycles, where many a pilot's anxious wife listens while he is aloft. He was on instruments at 15,000 feet, bogging down with a heavy load of ice, blown far east of Spokane by a terrific wind. The rest was silence. Last week, Pilot Shreck, still bundled in his water-soaked flying suit, stumbled into a farmhouse 50 miles east of Spokane. He had crashed on a 5,000-foot wooded ridge, had walked, crawled and rolled for three days and nights through head-high snowdrifts, guided...
Slickly engineered, with a minimum of turns and steep grades, the twin three-lane strips of the Autobahnen are separated by a hedged and grassed parkway 16 feet wide, which keeps traffic separated and cuts down headlight glare. Service stations, hotels, repair shops and rest stations are spaced along the highway with Teutonic regularity (26 miles between filling stations) and at even intervals there is a blackboard to call motorists to the phone for messages from home or summonses to emergency military duty...