Word: walked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Significantly, Lloyd's of London not long ago refused to write insurance on the life of strong and healthy Rumanian Premier Armand ("Little Hercules") Calinescu. Last week this actuarial judgment proved sound as foul murder and bloody vengeance erupted right in the middle of Bucharest, within five minutes walk of the Royal Palace...
...Technically, but not actually, Mr. Dewey was indeed jaywalking. Cameramen had asked him to walk across Owosso's Main Street; Mr. Dewey obliged; Owosso citizens goggled and traffic just naturally stopped...
...experiments," said Dr. Davidson, "I made a bold step, administering the filtrate to a human subject with carcinoma of the breast, who had previously been given a special high vitamin-content diet." To his delight, the cancer dried up, and in a year the woman was able to walk three or four miles every day. However, when she left her vitamin diet, the cancer soon returned and she died shortly afterward. Another patient, who suffered from cancerous growths on the side of his neck, was cured after a year and a half of high vitamin diet and filtrate injections. "Before...
...Britain's Imperial Airways curtailed passenger flights in Europe, but maintained its transatlantic and Empire services. >Recalled from South America by their Governments were the planes of Germany's Lufthansa and France's Air France. Thus Pan American Airways became virtual cock-o'-the-walk on both North & South Atlantic routes...
...investigation. To inquiries into a 20-cent-a-day-per-person food allowance, Promoter Rose blandly explained: "Some times we get a little something added to it, and then sometimes we get a little something taken away. . . . We will be camped in a desert, and the head cook will walk up to me and say, 'We haven't got no syrup,' and even after nine years that he has gone on these trips with us, he will look around for the corner grocery store where there is no store in 20 miles of there...