Word: boringly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thirty-two terrible hours later Commander Henry Coyle's Coast Guard cutter Mendota picked up the last of the 21 survivors who clung to bobbing bits of debris. Captain Coufopandelis bore a painful gash on the bridge of his nose, the bite of a sailor who shared the captain's improvised raft and went mad from drinking salt water. The others, six of whom were saved by the C. D. Mallory tanker Swiftsure, told a gruesome tale. The sea had suddenly become alive with sharks. Helpless comrades could only look on as the man-eaters tore the bodies...
Pianist Monath collaborated with Ira Hirschmann from the founding of the New Friends, last week was about to become his bride. The programs which she planned for him last year bore heavily on Brahms, emphasized the evolution of Beethoven's musical thought, showed the place of the piano in chamber music. In planning this year's programs, Pianist Monath performed the notable feat of reading through the massive tome, Chronologisch-systematisches Verzeichnis sammtlicher Tonwerke Mozarts, by Dr. Ludwig Ritter von Kochel, who patiently numbered each & every one of Mozart's voluminous works. She emerged with such rarities...
...world's most potent warship, Britain's famed Hood, was ordered to Balearic waters last week, ordered this week to Barcelona to investigate the sinking of a British tramp steamer by an airplane which the London Daily Herald insisted bore marks showing that its bomber pilot was Bruno Mussolini...
...pictures bore no resemblance to the popular caricature of child prodigies with spectacles and top-heavy craniums. More handsome than the average, Speyer's merry-faced youngsters were shown running and laughing like the perennially peptic urchins in magazine advertisements. Only their activities were unusual-playing chess, repairing engines, writing poetry, composing music, reading heavy volumes...
...Review team the work of James Heldt 2L stood out. "Big Jim" was a former All-Big-Six tackle for the University of Nebraska and was mentioned for All-American. Nathan Halpern 2L and Charles Feibleman 3L bore the ball-carrying burden for the magazine...