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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...three hours' flight, he doubled back toward the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Bibb, which" was on station as a weather ship about 900 miles northeast of Newfoundland. He found her, with fuel to spare. But as the plane settled lower, the tense and silent passengers saw a fearsome sight. The gale-driven waves were rolling 35 feet high and 100 feet from crest to foaming crest...
Giant Swing. That was only the beginning of the Sky Queen's ordeal. The sight of her, tumbling and pitching "like a giant swing at Coney Island," made Captain Paul Cronk, commander of the Bibb, feel "horrified" and "sick." He had been awakened by a steward only a little before, had "found myself frozen stiff in the middle of my quarters" by the news that the plane carried 69 people...
Crimson property in the Simmons sight-unseen date auction last night came off a woeful third to Tafts and M.L.T. entries as Senior Chuck Bilbeldt sold for $6.50 and the other two for $12.00 and $7.00, respectively. Simmons offered an apologias, however, stating that Hilboldt went on the blook first, before we reality got excited...
...strong central executive, all sound familiar. In fact, the whole procedure are sounds familiar--the "non-political" rallies, the unified core of 40 percent against a divided opposition and an apathetic majority the shrieks about a red menace, and finally the complacent satisfaction in America at the sight of Communism foiled. The whole thing has the horrible aspect of a once van quished vampire coming to life again...
...Queen Mother Margherita visited Maria Montessori's Casa del Bambini. Italian schoolmasters began to try out her methods. Montessori schools mushroomed throughout Europe and the U.S. As she grew older, the Dottoressa's stout figure, in its academic robes, became a familiar sight in lecture halls all over the world. Students crowded to hear her speak at the University of Rome. Mussolini made her an honorary Fascist, but she objected to the way Fascists tried to "warp youth in their own brutal pattern." In 1933, her schools were closed...