Word: two
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...records beamed encouragement to the struggling swimmer: "Down & down I go, round & round I go, like a leaf that's caught in the tide . . . under That Old Black Magic . . ." The Red Commodore also relayed a message from young (18) Briton Philip Mickman, who had unobtrusively swum the Channel two weeks before: "Head up, chin up, spit it out, beat Old Man Channel." Between wireless messages, the A.P. released carrier pigeons to fly bulletins to England. Unfortunately, the pigeons flew to France...
...after she had been kidnaped from Trenton, the Associated Press solemnly surveyed the geography of the case and told how her father took the good news: " 'I'd run all the way to Philadelphia to get her back,' he said." Added the literal-minded A.P.: "The two cities are 35 miles apart...
Typical machines in shoe stores, Dr. Williams found, deliver from five to 58 times the maximum dose considered safe by the American Standards Association and the New York City Health Department. The safe dose is two roentgens for each exposure. The safest machine examined by Williams delivered two roentgens in four seconds; the most dangerous delivered the dose in one-third of a second. Exposures range from five to 45 seconds; the one most often used is 20 seconds...
...Murray's Blockouts (produced by David W. Siegel) reached Broadway last week after playing for seven years in Hollywood. A freak success which was seldom the same show for two weeks running (TIME, Feb. 12, 1945), Blackouts grossed $5,000,000 from a 10,500. It reached Broadway in a slack season when no other new show was scheduled to open for weeks to come...
...time in a cheap rented room in the Kilburn district of London. Despite his vogue with London's intelligentsia, his tastes were still simple, his prices low (?5 to ?15 a picture). Some days he worked over his board as many as 15 hours, turned out pictures in two days. Afternoons at 4, however, he took time off to have tea with his landlady...