Word: talled
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with bidding to close Jan. 5. After erosion had left the 167-ft. tower a perilous 75 ft. from shore, jetties were built, the sea restored its sand, the city sprawled out over the new land. Now Absecon stands 1,500 ft. from shore, its ocean view blocked by tall apartment houses and hotels. Its 1½acres which cost $520 in 1854 are now appraised at $312,450; with tower and two cottages, at $414,450. First three prospective purchasers to inspect it were night club proprietors...
...Warsaw last week everyone recalled that the Treaty of 1921, now revived and strengthened, was based on a Clemenceau conception of Russia as a politically infectious area around which should be drawn a "sanitary cordon." In Bucharest the immensely tall, Mongoloid statesman who in a struggle of many years weakened this conception and secured mutual diplomatic recognition of each other by the Soviet Union and the Rumanian Kingdom (TIME, June 18, 1934) was M. Nicholas Titulescu. His influence recently waned, he was forced to resign as Foreign Minister. An invalid on the French Riviera, he has claimed that secret agents...
Irked when her fiancé laughs at her inability to do winter sports, the heroine .Hella Hartwich) goes to St. Moritz to learn. There she encounters two ski-larking jacks-of-all-trades (tall Walter Riml, tiny Guzzi Lantschner) who teach her to ski in the intervals when they are not clowning on skates or escaping from the local policeman. Becoming superbly skillful almost overnight, the heroine dresses as a man, shows up her fiance by beating him in the skijoring and bobsled races I hen he recognizes her, leads her astray m the slalom to a ski wedding with...
More than one-half of Mayflower's stock is owned by the directors and their families, biggest stockholder being President McConnell. A tall, spare onetime mining engineer, President McConnell was born 47 years ago in Colorado's Uncompahgre Valley, early stamping ground of Jack Dempsey, Harold Lloyd and Billy the Kid. His first practical mining experience was on a steam shovel on a copper property at $4 per day. Even in high school, however, he was taking long shots on penny mining stocks with notable success. In 1921 he went East to unload a big stock of gasoline...
...years ago a tall Ojibway Indian named Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin, which he translates as Grey Owl, headed west from northern Ontario with a family of beaver. With a view to popularizing his campaign to preserve wild life, Grey Owl had started a colony of these engaging little animals, written books about them, lectured in Canada and England, was rewarded when the Canadian National Park Service provided him with a permanent establishment in Prince Albert National Park (northern Saskatchewan). The mainstays of Grey Owl's beaver colony were a husky intelligent male called Rawhide, and a chattery...