Word: similarity
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...home. All aglow in her youthful innocent glee she unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...
...been told by a Senator (whom he refused to name) that the President was "hopping mad" over the shelving of his Neutrality Bill, that Secretary Hull was urging him not to send a "forceful" message to Congress. The U. P.'s Grattan P. McGroarty had got similar news at the State Department. Correspondents Van Tine and McGroarty sent out a story, under Van Tine's signature, beginning: "President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull were reported in Administration quarters today to have disagreed on the language of a neutrality message the President plans to send to Congress...
Sloths are not only undermuscled for their weight but also have an uncommonly low temperature. So Scientists Britton and Kline left their sloths out in the tropical sunshine long enough to raise their temperatures by five or six degrees, and the change was miraculous: they moved 50% faster. Similar speedups were also obtained by injections of adrenalin and prostigmin (an intestinal stimulant), and by scaring them. Subjected to such speedup techniques as this, the Virginia physiologists were pleased to report in Science last week that one thoroughly stimulated sloth hustled along the pole at the relatively dizzy pace...
Interviewed privately, Mr. Howe declared he was dead serious. He explained away a similar announcement last January by saying that that had simply been a feeler. His strongest campaign card, said he, would be his pledge to write a daily column "on what goes on in Washington so it can be understood out in this part of Texas...
...Radio) launches those of Alice Eden and John Archer, victors in a nationwide radio contest for new talent conducted by oldtime Producer Jesse Lasky on his Gateway to Hollywood radio hour. To the call for "young men not less than five feet nine inches tall with physical characteristics similar to those of Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Tyrone Power, Errol Flynn, etc." and for similar feminine paragons, Gateway to Hollywood got 40,000 applicants, 8,000 of whom were auditioned in 23 U. S. cities. "John Archer" is Ralph Bowman of Lincoln, Neb., 24, in looks a genteel replica of Max Baer...