Word: stucke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...discuss what they have managed to find out. All through the two hours, a professor sits by. Not to see that the students work (there is no need of that) and not to meddle with them while they work. He is there merely to help out anybody who gets stuck, and, during the discussion that follows study, serve as a kind of moderator. When occasion arises, students consult his opinion. Even then, he talks with, instead of at, the students...
...gangdom. In Manhattan the police department announced it would weed out criminal aliens from the daily lineup, turn them over to the Federal agency for deportation. As part of the Department of Labor's effort, Tony ("Mops") Volpe was seized on a deportation warrant in Chicago. Courts stuck to their method of jailing criminals on income tax evasion charges. In Albany, N. Y., papers of incorporation were filed for, the Anti-Gang League of America. Purpose: to urge the nation's law-abiding citizenry to war on crime. Rallying cry: "It's on the spot...
...middle-aged woman answered the correspondent's knock, went to fetch Mme Ekaterina Dzhugashvili. Lenin called her son "Stalin" ("Steel") for short, and the name has stuck, but the Man of Steel's proper name is Josef Vissarionovitch Dzhugashvili...
...Weather Bureau officials last week waited breathless as tornadoes stuck down their twisting, grey trunks to send buildings flying in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas. Worst damage was at Bethany, Okla.-25 killed, 57 seriously injured...
...nature grim, Author Munthe has whimsied them into wistfulness which never quite loses an old-fashioned charm. His humor is of the same mellow vintage. On a vacation at Ischia he struck up a friendship with a donkey. "Each morning came my neighbor, the old donkey, and stuck in her solemn head through the open door, looking steadfastly at me. I always wondered why she stood there so still and did nothing but stare at me, and I could not hit upon any other explanation than that she thought I was nice to look...