Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since the start of the 14-months'-old war this line has been bombed in 1,300 places. Speedy repair work has held the periods of service interruptions to a minimum, and last week trains were still running, albeit irregularly. Most remarkable testimony to Chinese ingenuity was that the 680-mile run from Canton to Hankow has been shortened to 36 hours instead of the old 45-hour schedule. Moreover, in spite of war, and because of heavy war supply shipment, the line made money; net profit last fiscal year...
...police also reported that their investigations indicated a second uprising was planned by the Nazis, whose real leader, a mysterious Chief "X," was still at large. While police hunted Chief X and numerous missing Nazi members, the Chilean Congress decided to increase the size of the army, buy modern military equipment...
...subsidiary, announced specifications for a plane with two motors in one unit, geared with overrunning clutches to a single propeller. Overrunning clutches, similar in effect to a bicycle coaster brake or to the overdrive principle in some modern automobiles, permit a failing motor automatically to disengage itself, saving the still-functioning motor the strain of working against the inertia and compression of the dead...
...Rodgers & Hart have written together. Larry Hart did not originate sophisticated lyrics. William Schwenk Gilbert was 48 years and many a smart jingle ahead of him. Richard Rodgers is not the first man to write melodies that get inside of people and do something to them. Franz Lehar could still give him a lesson in Schmalzmusik. But a song is words and music, and nobody ever fused words and music more effectively than Rodgers & Hart. When Rodgers' melodic line expresses gaiety, sadness, humor, Hart's lyrical line invariably complements and fulfills it. The lyrical slant...
...since the Gar rick Gaieties, Rodgers & Hart have livened Manhattan with such hits as Dearest Enemy, Peggy-Ann, The Girl Friend, A Connecticut Yankee, and the five-in-a-row of the last three years. They have livened the whole U. S. with such songs as My Heart Stood Still, Ten Cents a Dance, Blue Moon, I've Got Five Dollars, There's a Small Hotel, With a Song in My Heart (Rodgers' favorite composition), The Lady Is a Tramp. In the 13 years, their shows have played everywhere from Wales to New South Wales. And they...