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...churn my dear Grandmother had Was made of cedar wood, And many a good old fashioned rub Of soap and sand had stood. The hoops that bound it were of brass, And shone like burnished gold. Five gallons too of cream or milk, That good old churn would hold. Ker Chunk, Ker Chunk...
...broke his leg during a race in 1930, King George V sent his personal best wishes for a quick recovery. Already well known to British cinema audiences, he appeared on the U. S. screen last spring in a Derby picture called Wings of the Morning, where his silks shone in Technicolor and he amiably submitted to jokes about his height...
...life went on at Moscow in most of its accustomed grooves. The story about What Ails Russia was so big that most correspondents in Russia completely gagged on it last week, sent few dispatches. Suddenly New York Times Correspondent Harold Denny, whose Moscow by-line has for many weeks shone alone while famed Walter Duranty visited the U. S., started sending reams of matter which the Pulitzer Prize Committee can hardly overlook and which the Times printed day after day with the proud notation "Uncensored...
...loss of .6% on $307,000,000 sales in 1935. This late comeback coincided with a jump in residential building from about 150,000 new homes in 1935 to an estimated 275,000 in 1936. It was the industry's first profitable year since 1929 and shone brightly indeed after the darkness of 1932, when furniture makers sold only $206,000,000 worth of goods, losing $25 on every $100 worth. It was also a higher profit on sales than the industry made in 1928, though in that year sales were around $600,000,000. Good reason for this...
...around it the sun's corona. At least seven prominent streamers were apparent, as well as several smaller ones. The longest extended about twice the moon's diameter. Four spots of red solar prominences appeared plainly during the eclipse. The planet Venus, which appeared even before totality, shone; also Mercury and several stars of first magnitude. The sky appeared a deep blue as did the water even at the beginning of the eclipse. I could see to the west all the way under the moon's shadow to where the sun shone more than 150 miles away...