Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Foreigners have several times conquered Poland, but few foreigners have ever mastered the pronunciation of Polish. It has a peculiar letter similar to L which is pronounced like W; W is pronounced like V or F; CZ like SH; SZ as in the word "azure." Poles also frequently half tick off an extra consonant or two that is hitched in front of many words, and pronounce OW at the end of words as in "woof-woof...
...radio and talking pictures. Loosely based on the life and exploitations of Impresario Gus Edwards, who detected promise in such kiddies as Georgie Jessel, Lila Lee and Walter Winchell and plucked the youthful Eddie Cantor out of a knife-throwing act, The Star Maker has as its frame the similar career of Larry Earl (Bing Crosby). Like Impresario Edwards, Larry goes on mopping up with his moppets until a children's protective society forcibly shows him the error of his ways. By that time Larry has uncovered practically everything the U. S. has to show...
...simply has no funds to administer any program beyond next June 30," said Federal Works Administrator John M. Carmody, explaining why he must fire half his staff of 10/417 by January i, wind up all PWA public housing, power and similar projects by the end of fiscal...
...women, a Japanese, a Hindu, a Negro and a mulatto. Last week in one of the most thorough analyses of skin color ever published, Drs. Edwards and Duntley announced: 1) two pigments hitherto unknown in the skin are involved in skin color; 2) skins of all races are chemically similar...
...doormen to distribute his Guide by bribing them with movie passes. Within a year he was selling enough advertising to hire as editor one Jesse Zunser, a footloose free lancer whose candid comments on plays and films soon gave Naborhood Theatre Guide a small reputation among half-a-dozen similar guides. By 1934 Glankoff's little sheet had spread to the East Side, had a few hundred subscribers at $1 a year, had changed its name...