Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...background, a well-written article would stand out in any standard periodical like the single light of a one-eyed car. Good writing can never take the place of good research, but the scholar who has something to say and says it well will command attention. Scientists are still humans, and they cannot experience an emotional thrill over an article entitled, 'A Short Dissertation on the Effects of Alcoholic Tincture of Rotenone in the Control of Thrips on Six-weeks Old Spinach Plants in Richmond and Queens Boroughs,' especially if the article concludes that the tincture...
...exploit into a torchy part of the St. Louis saga, but Britt's mother somehow influenced them to leave her son's real name out of it. In the face of the publicity, Frankie fled St. Louis. To Kansas City, to Portland, Oregon, the song still pursued her. When eventually it began blaring out of the radio, she went a-lawing. By last week she was suing, among others, Mae West, Paramount Pictures, Republic Pictures, Robbins Music Corp. Her complaint: defamation of character; invasion of the right of privacy...
...last week it was apparent that the international tennis courts had not seen the last of Mrs. Moody. Packing up her rackets for her first tennis campaign in three years, Mrs. Moody, still nimble at 32, embarked for England. There she will try for her eighth English championship, will play for the U. S. in the Wightman Cup matches against England, next fall will attempt to capture one more U. S. title...
...when the regular season got under way last week and Owner Ruppert still refused to budge a dollar, Junior Di Maggio suddenly realized that he was not only losing $162 for every day he was missing from the Yankee line-up but was losing face with his teammates and his public as well. Anxious to have a high mark in Conduct as well as in Homeruns, 23-year-old Joe Di Maggio finally capitulated, wired Owner Ruppert his surrender...
Hardly more than a generation ago, U. S. churches still had a stirring sense of the U. S. frontier. Much of their consecrated vigor derived from their missionary work among U. S. Indians. Today the welfare of the nation's 337,000 red men lies less with the churches than with the Government, particularly with Secretary of the Interior Ickes and zealous Indian Commissioner John Collier. Last week in Atlantic City, missionary chagrin over this state of affairs spilled over. At a Conference of Friends of the Indian-representing two secular Indian associations and Indian mission workers...