Word: thunderings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...balloon flight came as a complete national surprise. For the past six months Osoaviakhim (civilian aviation society) had been planning a stratosphere flight, but its thunder was stolen last autumn when the Red Army balloon U. S. S. R. got away first to an altitude record of 11.8 mi. (TIME, Oct. 9). Quietly Osoaviakhim plugged its preparations. Pavel Fedeseemko, a famed civilian pilot, was in charge. lya Oususkin, youthful physicist, was his first aide, Andrey Vasenko his engineer. With only a few officials privy to their secret, the crew had its balloon Osoaviak-him I inflated at Osoaviakhim...
...Eisenstein's much touted genius seems conspicuously absent in "Thunder Over Mexico," on more than one occasion. Time is of no account to this master. Art is art. Despite all adverse criticism, I recommend this film to you on the merits of the beautiful photography without which Eisenstein would be lost. Mexico is laid before you, beautiful at times, monotonous at others, but always fascinatingly real...
...program at St. Paul's will include "When His Loud Voice in Thunder Spoke," by Handel, the "Misereri," by Allegri, "The Peddlers," a Russian Folk Song, "Crudele Irene," an Italian song, and several other selections, including the "Gondoliers," by Gilbert and Sullivan...
Another typical Rice thunder was a $5,000 standing reward for proof that any one connected with the Watchtower had any interest in the stocks that the Watchtower recommends-at the time that they are recommended...
Acting laurels in Wednesday's Child are heaped upon the tousled yellow head of Frank M. Thomas Jr. A pouting, cherubic tot of 12, he made his stage debut at nine months, got experience in Carrie Nation, Little Boy, Thunder on the Left. His mother plays the trained nurse in Wednesday's Child; his father (The Gods We Make) is for the time being "at liberty...