Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conversations gurgled. Telegrams stuttered along the wires. Ships' compasses jiggled. And the Northern Lights flapped like curtains in a storm. It all reflected, said Dr. A. G. McNish, authority on the earth's magnetism, in Washington last week for a meeting of the American Geophysical Union, the worst magnetic storm in a century. This in turn was due to a great magnetic storm which swept across the face of the sun four days earlier and sent a gust of electric corpuscles toward the earth at 270 mi. per sec. Such violent sun storms will probably recur every...
...field on the heels of the Supreme Court's validation of the Wagner Act. And for the first time full light was falling on dark Harlan County as, before the Senate's Civil Liberties Committee, witnesses pieced together a picture of antiunionism at its exceptional worst...
Good Old Soak (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer). Old Clem Hawley (Wallace Beery) is a likable small-town toper, whose worst sin is getting drunk with his crony, Al (Ted Healy), and Mrs. Hawley's hired girl. Young Clem Hawley (Eric Linden) is an obnoxious young bank clerk who steals his mother's savings to repay money embezzled from the till to buy summer ermine for a night club dancer. Ostracized by his wife and suspected of his son's theft, Old Clem Hawley shows what he is made of. He explodes his son's romance with...
...first to come down with it. After his recovery, he and Robert were packed off to an aunt's while his mother and father went off to the hospital. Then Robert got the flu. Long before his father came back alone from the hospital, Robert guessed the worst. Both James and Robert blamed themselves, in silence, for Elizabeth's death. James thought he could not face living with his children, planned to sell the house, get rid of everything that could possibly remind him of his dead wife. Then he saw frightened little Bunny staring at him with...
Perhaps the most fruitful comments that came out of the English Concentrators meeting for the Confidential Guide, aside from the general remarks about teachers who is the best and who the worst, and what are the courses that pave the smoothest way to a degree, were the observations made with regard to the two beginners' English Literature courses, English 1 and English 2. For although these two courses, both introductory to the field, lead into their material from entirely different approaches, they inevitably tend to cover the same subjects and with about the same degree of minuteness. It is felt...