Word: sensationalize
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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In London last week everyone was complaining "the sun has not been out since before Christmas." In Venice thermometers crawled down below freezing, stayed there for four consecutive days, while the Grand Canal froze solid. One day it cost $20,000 to clear the snow from Berlin's streets...
Had this ambitious program been launched last week by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, it might well have caused an international sensation. It was, however, merely another evidence of the social-mindedness of his articulate wife whose latest book* was published to coincide with the New Year.
Bill Kendall, Don Barker, Don McKay, Ray Benedict, Freddie Griffin, and Captain Hutter comprise one of the fastest groups of sprinters in the country. Frank Coleman and Bob Murphy will take care of the distance work, while Eric Cutler, who created a sensation last year when as a Freshman he...
D'Herelle prematurely decided that he had a cure for all bacterial diseases, and phage became a sensation. (The young doctor in Sinclair Lewis' Arrowsmith was a phage researcher.) More than 50 different phages were found, and some of them were photographed by ultraviolet light in ultra-microscopes...
After seven years in a French convent, 18-year-old Victoria arrived in England to make her own way as a governess. But Lady Derby, her aunt, had a better idea: to install her as hostess at the British Embassy at Washington, where her father was now British Ambassador. Skillful...