Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more machines at all cost, to training men fitted to operate them. Not until last week did the world realize in most dramatic fashion in what dire need Soviet Russia is for capable, trained personnel. The Maxim Gorki, largest land-plane in the world, crashed in the worst airplane disaster in history (see p. 56). Russian designed, Russian built, the plane was technically perfect, might never have fallen but for the childish desire of a stunt pilot named Blagin to do tricks in dangerous proximity to the great plane...
...badge of honor to the Members of the Boston Tea Party who destroyed the British tea in Boston Harbor. The British denounced that incident as an act of vandalism. Scuttling the American concept of Government by exalting an American Bolshevik is vandalism in my opinion of the worst type. John P. Story, Jr. M.I.T...
...more religious sects. The most cherished one, the Holy Sepulchre (of Christ) is tended by Franciscan monks but, by old tradition, has Mohammedan doorkeepers, who used calmly to lock in the meek monks every night. What dismayed Editor Morrison and other members of his cruise was that the worst charlatanry was exhibited not by dragoman guides but by Greek and Roman priests, in charge of holy spots whence their Churches derive substantial revenue. It was bad enough, wrote Dr. Morrison, that after 20 centuries and repeated destructive battles in Palestine a tourist should be expected to believe in the continued...
...packed with pathos and mingled emotions, to prove that all of us are brothers and sisters under the skin. Gertrude Michael, the star, fed up with her public and her press-agent, Hugh O'Connell, is fascinated by Lyle Talbot's manly figure and colorful repartee. We fear the worst when she lures him away from his telephone girl sweetheart and aboard a yacht, where he saves her from a couple of thugs; she says, "Why are you so cold and distant?"; he says, "O. K. Toots;" she says, "You dance divinely;" he says, "Aw, gee;" she says, "haven...
...there to take out the oil, timber and camphor. Last week, far beneath the earth's surface, some internal ailment seeking relief exploded a volcano in Japan, shook Alaska, rumbled down the Chinese coast, crossed the shallow Formosan Strait and rocked Formosa with the Far East's worst earthquake since...