Word: tilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Statesman J. Hamilton Lewis, whose elegant pink beard has grown grey in 25 years during which he served Illinois off & on in the U. S. Senate, announced he would retire from Congress next year. (His term does not expire till...
...victims, hay fever is no laughing matter. Every summer, over 6,000,000 people in the U. S. are racked by its sneezes, blinded by its tears. For half the sufferers, the 15th of August, when ragweed fever begins, is their last sneezeless day till frost. Why the disease always strikes on August 15 is no nasal mystery, but merely another indication of Nature's regularity. As August 15 approaches, the shortening of daylight hours allows the ragweed plant precisely enough sunlight to ripen it on that day. And the number of hours of daylight and darkness...
...years since, five salvage expeditions, French, German, Dutch, English, have recovered no more than $200,000, a few cannon balls, a spoon, some brass nails and the ship's bell which now hangs in Lloyd's. Meanwhile, the Lutine settled down 70 feet through loose sand till she rested on the clay bottom. Last spring, Lloyd's licensed Billiton Point Mining...
...American has flown some 60,000,000 miles above water-3,000,000 across the Pacific, a considerably more arduous trip (see p. 44) than across the Atlantic. While its rivals are out practicing it thinks it can relax till Boeing finishes the first of six 72-passenger Clippers (biggest transport planes in the world) in Seattle, Wash. Unlike the English Composites and the German Catapults, the Pan American Clipper will heave itself out of the water on its own power. But until it or some other U. S. plane is ready to start a regular schedule, no mail...
...expedition had ended in crushing disaster. But whenever one side suggested peace, the other side was doing too well with the war to call it off. Then Aristophanes wrote Lysistrata. What if all the women of Athens united, seized the Acropolis, told the men they would live resolutely continent till the war ended? Aristophanes suggested that the war would end at once...