Word: throughness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since developing from a painfully shy, homely gosling and an inhibited, inferior-feeling wife and daughter-in-law, into a self-confident swan of a woman with the nation for her pond, she has learned to sail through life with serenity. In the rarefied top stratum of official existence, where...
Even as the Foreign Minister traveled through Germany on his way back, an anti-Polish Nazi diplomatic and press barrage was going full blast. A Polish-British treaty, said Herr Hitler's diplomats and newspapers, would be considered an unfriendly act against the Third Reich. Furthermore, the signing of...
A specially developed sand paint prevents reflection of sunlight from windows (which would catch the eye of an enemy aviator), but permits light to pass through them. The paint jobs are executed by C. & T. Painters, Ltd., who have circulated a handsome brochure with "before and after" color photographs. The...
Flight. Meanwhile, at the first approach of danger, 43-year-old King Zog loaded his 23-year-old wife and newly born son into an Albanian automobile converted into an ambulance and sent them, with escort, over a 160-mile stretch of rough road into neighboring Greece. Lodging in a...
Baseball to Tumors. Dr. Cushing's extraordinary career is a record of one of the most single-minded men in the history of medicine. At Yale young Harvey Cushing played right field on the baseball team, and became a first-rate gymnast. Following family tradition (three generations), he decided...