Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Pensacola in 1904, Chief Gunner's Mate Mons Monssen of the battleship Missouri* crawled into the magazine after an explosion had already killed 29 men and injured five, and with bare hands beat out a fire which would have killed 600 more had it reached the powder room. Mate Monssen got a Congressional Medal. In 1925 he retired, a lieutenant. In 1930 he died. This spring the Navy Department notified Hero Monssen's widow that one of its new destroyers will be christened U.S.S. Monssen...
...foreign diplomat, U. S. or otherwise, has ever received kindnesses from Soviet Russia equal to that accorded Mr. Davies, whose outright position as a U. S. money man left room for no ambiguity or misunderstanding between him and his official hosts. Few have shown in return the same interest in the Soviet Union. First arriving in Moscow with a large entourage and a railroad car of frozen delicacies, Ambassador Davies immediately won the Soviet Union's friendship by his elaborate entertainments for Soviet officials, by two long trips and many minor ones through the interior. Once he dined...
...trustees and officers who manage the affairs of the American Medical Association sat silent for 16 min., 40 sec. in a San Francisco room last week. Cause: A preview of the MARCH OF TIME'S monthly cinema on the topic Men of Medicine-1938, a picture of how a young man gets his medical education and interne training, how he sets up practice in a typical small U. S. community, how he accidentally gets and skilfully operates on his first appendix case, how he gives his service free to the poor who attend hospital clinics...
Interior plans call for three levels, two for squash courts and the top for a basketball floor and exercise room. The lower levels will be divided by corridors running through the center of the building, with doorways to the courts. Lockers and shower baths are on the first and second levels...
Unhappiest experience occurred to Abraham & Straus, where preliminary tests brought a belated discovery that NBC is broadcasting its pictures only northward of the Empire State Building. So Brooklynites were given admission cards to an A. T. C. demonstration in Manhattan. There 500 guests crowded into a small room to try to watch an hour show of film and live talent on a bright green screen, five inches square. Many strained their eyes so badly that they left the show seeing pink spots...