Word: tellings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slipped a mere ten years (wish I could do the same) in publication date of How To Tell The Birds From The Flowers. My dog-eared and beloved copy bears imprint of Paul Elder Co., San Francisco and New York, 1907, which year Santa Claus brought...
Since sunspot behavior is irregular, it is sometimes impossible to tell that a peak or a trough has been passed until many months afterward. At a summer meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Ottawa last week, Dr. Harlan True Stetson of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, reported that the peak of the current cycle had been reached and passed in July 1937. The spots are now on the downgrade therefore, and the world can look forward to a minimum of magnetic storms and to uninterrupted radio communication for four or five more years...
...Greene hastened away to catch a train for Ottawa, where he was scheduled to tell the American Association for the Advancement of Science (see p. 20) about his new pain interceptor...
...Jimmy's first big prize. A Manhattan insurance man. Theodore Martin Riehle, had arranged for the company to take out a $10,000,000 policy on Mr. Hill's life. Hearing of this. Jimmy Roosevelt called up Warm Springs, Ga. when Mr. Hill was visiting there. "Tell father to be nice to Mr. Hill," he told a secretary. "I want to get his insurance." He did, about $2,000,000 worth...
Before her first appearance in Jones Beach operetta, pretty June Havoc (real name: Evangeline June Hovick), sister of Louise Hovick (Gypsy Rose Lee), announced: "My sister always was the beauty of the family. All of a sudden people tell me I'm beautiful. Maybe the pills I've been taking have done...