Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After striking this blow, Times Editor Geoffrey Dawson was still in good enough standing to lunch with His Majesty's principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, Viscount Halifax. While they lunched, the French and Czechoslovak Governments urgently demanded that the Times editorial be repudiated, and every German paper jubilantly front-paged it as showing the "real mind" of Neville Chamberlain. Viscount Runciman, the British Mediator in Prague, began cabling London heavily in code, was reported threatening to resign. Finally, in the evening, at No. 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister issued a communiqué: "The suggestion...
...wind. Next practical step would be designing of a wing for more speed, safety, lift. Application of the "ergodic" theorem has proved very useful, said Dr. Wiener, rushing into a mass of detail so abstruse that not all his colleagues could understand him. Many unsolved problems on turbulent motion still remain, but Wiener's enthusiasm for harmonic analysis was so intense last week that California Tech's famed Eric Temple Bell was moved to cry: "Who will rid me of this turbulent fellow...
Aided by Pee-Wee Pete Bostwick (called by visiting Argentine players "Leetle man, beeg bump") at No. 1, blond Argentine Roberto Cavanagh (and his Irish brogue) at No. 2, and Jock Whitney at Back, Tommy Hitchcock had demonstrated this summer that he is still the best poloist in the world, despite the fact that he is playing his 26th season of competitive polo. In Meadow Brook's turquoise-blue stands, filled with 36,000 fans last week, there was many a rooter who had staked Tommy Hitchcock against the field...
...Still another reason for radio's steadily advancing prosperity is the increase in sales of daylight time (up 500% in five years for CBS). Cereal makers have learned to go after the kiddies around the wash-for-suppertime, soap makers like to catch housewives at the morning laundry or noon dishes. But the fact remains that of the average 65% of their time the networks boast of giving away, by far the greater part is in the daytime. Commercial radio, like many a maiden, looks best after dark...
...grown from a gross of $1,364,876 for 1935 to $2,269,078 for 1937. The first eight months of 1938 brought them $1,673,913 and contracts already signed for the last four months add up to some $909,200 more. With sales for the year still going strong, MBS already has a 1938 gross under contract which betters its 1937 peak by some 13.6%, is 22.7% ahead of last year on its first eight months, ran up August revenues to top the same month last year by a staggering 70.4%. Despite a depression summer, MBS is still...