Word: strand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...trio of cameramen, all able, all Left-wing in politics. Ralph Steiner, 37, gained fame as a still photographer, currently earns his bread-&-butter doing color work for Ladies' Home Journal, has made several cinema shorts including H2O, Surf and Sea Weed, Pie in the Sky. Paul Strand, one-time protege of Alfred Stieglitz. did a film called Redes for the Mexican Government. Leo Hurwitz has excited Leftist audiences with shorts on the "Scottsboro Boys" and a Washington hunger march...
...soon bought out his partner. In 1880 he soared to the top of the brawling harvester business with a twine binder which he picked up from one John F. Appleby. Twine binders did not cut into the wheat or, like wire binders, kill cattle that happened to eat a strand. Struggling little Northwestern University, founded by Methodists, learned early to count on pious, prosperous William Deering. From 1876 until his death in 1913 William gave Northwestern $1,000,000 in 55 small but steady driblets. Most of his $15,000,000 estate he walled to his two sons, Charles...
...Angeles, a municipal court ruled that the Strand Theatre pay $400 to the winner of a Bank Night prize who had failed to claim it in the specified three minutes, although he had been in the Strand Theatre at the time the prize was announced...
...thinks her Empire still is the Strand and Holborn Hill, And she didn't think of Sergeant Whats-isname...
This tribute to the Realmleader, tossed off three months ago by the Rt. Hon. Winston Churchill in a potboiling piece for Vincent Astor's Today, went unnoticed by German diplomats in the U. S. last August. When it potboiled up again in London's Strand Magazine (which had bought it from Mr. Churchill, to whom the British rights were released on Sept. 18 by Today), the fat of cherubic "Winnie" was in the fire last week. Reason: Statesman Churchill in the interval has made his peace with British Prime Minister Baldwin and Germans, like everyone else, understood that...