Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wedding day was the biggest that sleepy Nahant has known since Roosevelt I paused there in 1902 to visit Senator Henry Cabot Lodge's grandfather. Anne's Boston background is thoroughly Republican (though not so dramatically Tory as Ethel du Font's) but many a Bostonian declined an invitation to the wedding reception. Startled Mother Clark, after planning for 400 guests, received White House requests for 550 invitations, most of which were accepted. The Secret Service cautiously wired off the narrow causeway leading out to the village from the mainland, made guests walk to the church. Cars...
...screen is the work of Scophony Ltd., owners of a new process for projecting television pictures as though they were films. The method of freeing the picture from the limitations of the cathode tube is Scophony's secret, but they have a screen going into London's new Monseigneur News Theatre in Baker Street. Scophony's Director Solomon Sagall has promised full-sized cinema screen television for all theatres of England's Odeon Circuit by year's end. Test showings of Scophony projections have excited televisionists...
...Though long be the night, With the dawn comes the light...
...period, who had learned the art of domesticating animals, had to keep their cattle on the uplands lest they be devoured. On the uplands there were few streams of water. With the eerie ingenuity which savages sometimes manifest, the herders built "dew ponds" which stayed full of water though the animals drank from them every day. Some modern authorities contend that rain contributes practically all of the ponds' water supply, but others disagree, claiming that dew-moisture condensed from the air- provides the important portion...
...active 0-T-C dealers are supposed to band together in geographical groups, draw up rules, elect officers and police themselves (all subject to SEC approval). If SEC decides that this has failed to prevent manipulation, excessive commissions, other unfair practices, it may step in. Though last week's act exempted dealers in Government, State and municipal securities, Washington insiders predicted that the next Congress will tackle legislation to regulate municipals...