Word: missing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Shot charge at 900 ft. per sec. requires 1/6 sec. to travel 50 yds. Duck at 50 m.p.h. travels 264,000 ft. per hr.-73 1/3 ft. per sec. or 12 2/9 ft. in 1/6 sec. If you shoot directly at him you are mathematically certain to miss him 122/9...
...When TIME Shall Be No More" meant nothing to me but an empty phrase until I began to miss TIME on a trip around the world last summer...
...well-behaved. Genteel, experienced Grace George appears as an English matron who has, at his wish, divorced the husband of her heart (A. E. Matthews) and who, after seven years, skillfully regains him while his young, obnoxious second wife conceives a passion for a ballroom dancer. In her intrigues Miss George seems wise, affectionate and lovely. Mr. Matthews, pointing his speech with subtle sigh, grunt and grumble, gives a human, extremely funny portrait of a boyish sort of man whose most serious follies must inevitably be ingenuous and disarming. The dialog is sedately witty rather than wisecracking - remarking...
...erudite Grace Abbott, 51, no mother, chief of the U. S. Children's Bureau, last week was particularly pleased to note that there were then 500 child guidance clinics in 350 different U. S. communities. The first of such clinics started just 20 years ago in Chicago when Miss Abbott was a resident of Jane Addams' Hull House...
...Miss Abbott's elder sister, by two years, is Dean Edith Abbott of the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Social Service Administration...