Word: returning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...deep. A 6-knot current slashed through the channels. It was forseen that for ten hours a day. between tides, turbines could not turn, but while they were operating it was planned to use their power to pump seawater to an upland reservoir, whence it could return creating auxiliary power during Quoddy's idle hours...
...summer afternoon in 1885 the great Pre-Raphaelite painter, Sir John Everett Millais, saw his curly-headed little grandson, Willie James, blowing soap bubbles in a velvet suit, induced him to pose for his portrait in return for a series of fairy stories. Before the portrait was finished, methodical Painter Millais found it necessary to have an iridescent glass sphere especially blown so that he could copy the tints of a soap bubble. The canvas created a mild artistic scandal when it was sold to Lever Bros. Ltd. for Pear's soap advertising. As such it soon became...
Harvard. "He himself seldom drank even beer," says Mrs. Older, "but his friends were Harvard's merriest roisterers. More and more were their misdemeanors held to be a violation of discipline and order. . . . Before he took his degree he left Cambridge never to return...
...Editor Ethridge took a trip abroad at the expense of the Oberlaender Trust, a fund to provide German junkets for influential Americans. On his return, he took over the flabby old Washington Post. Six months later he was on his way to Richmond and the Times-Dispatch, soon raised its circulation 10%. Made president & publisher, Mark Ethridge seemed content until the Courier-Journal lured him away with a reputed $25,000 a year...
...actors. Camerawise, she knows when she has made a mistake and will hold up her hand to stop the take. When a scene is made in which she has to cry, her mother takes her off the set and talks to her sternly for a few minutes. When they return, Shirley cries without effort. She is not sensitive when criticized. "You can do lots better than that, Shirley," said Director David Butler after a scene in Captain January. Shirley Temple winked as she has seen older actresses do. Said she: "There was a little faking...