Word: suddenly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Reader's Digest published a noteworthy article called "-And Sudden Death." Its author was a Manhattan newshawk named Joseph C. Furnas. The article was thus prefaced: Like the gruesome spectacle of a bad automobile accident itself, the realistic details of this article will nauseate some readers. Those who find themselves thus affected at the outset are cautioned against reading this article in its entirety...
Excerpts from "-And Sudden Death": "Publicizing the total of motoring in-juries-almost a million last year, with 36,000 deaths-never gets to first base in jarring the motorist into a realization of the appalling risks of motoring. He does not translate dry statistics into a reality of blood and agony...
After sneering openly at Democratic governments since the Russian Revolution of 1917. the Comintern or World Union of Communist Parties executed in Moscow last week a sudden about-face. Hitherto the duty outside Russia of every Communist has been to cripple his country's war-time forces and if possible foment a revolution while fighting men are at the front. Joseph Stalin created a sensation this spring by a statement to French Premier Laval which seemed to mean that French Communists should support the French Army, an unprecedented heresy from the Old Bolshevik point of view (TIME...
...industry to which personal vanity, professional jealousy and creative carte blanche are as indispensable as they are to the cinema, upheavals in personnel are naturally more sudden, more dramatic, and more painful than elsewhere. Hollywood long ago chose "amicable settlement" as an apt phrase to describe the results, whatever these may be, of all such events. Two months ago when Producers Darryl Zanuck and Joseph Schenck took their lively Twentieth Century Pictures away from United Artists to merge with Fox, where Winfield Sheehan has been vice president in charge of production since 1926, it was immediately clear that an amicable...
...seesaw and springboard were all made of glass. This flexible, resilient glass, called "tempered glass'' by its U. S. manufacturer, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass Co., is about five times stronger than plate glass, can be bent or twisted 20° out of its plane, is unharmed by sudden temperature shifts, and when finally shattered by a severe impact does not fly into jagged slivers but crumbles harmlessly into small bits...