Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Best thing about the current production is its shrewdly cropped text. Worst thing is that the actors prance around too much in the aisles. Most unimaginative thing is the old-school, highbusted performance...
Unlike U. S. baseball, there are no highly-paid prima donnas in soccer. All players receive a standard weekly wage (?4 to ?8), are seldom singled out for acclaim by sportswriters. The team is the thing. Arsenal, the most famed team in England, draws the largest crowds, makes the most money and gets the biggest headlines. Its director and part owner, paunchy, jowled George Allison, brought to British soccer in 1933 the flair for publicity he learned during 22 years as a London journalist for William Randolph Hearst. Into his new million-dollar stadium, Director Allison, a onetime Yorkshire soccer...
Available to President Roosevelt last week were two suggestions on how to check depression. Suggested Economist Carl H. Henrikson, assistant dean of the Business School of the University of Chicago, to Philadelphia Rotarians: "If all economists in the world were laid on their faces, it would be a good thing for business." Suggested cantaloupe-faced Philosopher Will Durant, to Californians: "Raise more fruit and less nuts...
...thing, they can detect an incipient case of measles by applying a blue black stain called nigrosin, which has a special affinity for measles virus, to a specimen of mucus from the nose or throat of anyone suffering from a sore throat. If he is coming down with measles, the virus can be seen under the microscope as dark dots...
...ears in criticism for having approved the fatal ship, would quickly restore Northwest's license, look for another goat. Said Senator Copeland, accident-conscious chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee: "Whether or not the structure of the plane was properly planned is the question and the embarrassing thing is that the plane was approved by the Department...