Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Britain, however, they do things differently. Last week Secretary for War Leslie Hore-Belisha, the man who is rated the livest live wire in the Chamberlain Cabinet, rose in Parliament to declare that the antiaircraft equipment of London during last September's crisis was in an utterly chaotic state. Mr. Hore-Belisha added many unpleasant details...
...frequent than solar eclipses, more people see them because the darkened moon is visible from a whole hemisphere of earth. Totality of this week's lunar eclipse lasted 1 hr. 23 min. For a brief interval on the Atlantic seaboard a remarkable phenomenon was on view. The moon rose, fully eclipsed, six minutes before sunset. Thus for that time both bodies were visible where there was a clear view from horizon to horizon. Explanation...
...modern, organic architecture greatly, but not in the way it was intended. It shows how narrow, how shallow life was in Colonial days. I have long ceased to take off my hat to our forefathers, seeing what a mess they left us." Up in arms, as one man, rose Colonial-conscious Virginia...
Supported by State appropriations and $1,000,000 from the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Fund, this station followed the development of Iowa City children from birth. In its nursery school, the station found that children's I. Q.s rose as much as 20 points. This was unexpected, as it had always been supposed that an individual's I. Q., which measures not knowledge or acquired skills but ability to learn, represented his native intelligence and remained constant...
After the War, Burns and bazooka toured in smalltime vaudeville for ten years, rose to the height of running his own carnival show. In 1930, when vaudeville collapsed, Burns tried radio and pictures. Finally Rudy Vallee gave him a part on his program. Burns was a hit and his income thereafter zoomed. As estimated for tax collectors, it was $1,500 in 1934, $9,000 in 1935, $100,000 in 1936 and $400,000 last year, when he not only played second leads in Paramount pictures but shared top honors with Bing Crosby on Kraft Cheese broadcasts and wrote syndicated...