Word: swallowing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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TIME keeps many a seaman from being left in the lurch about what the world is doing, and FORTUNE is so damned fascinating that the educational articles are fed to us with the sugar coated pill of entertainment. An easy pill for all hands to swallow...
...observed in 1925 that''beans could get no keener reception in a beanery: bless our mountain greenery home!"-still maintains the lightest touch in the business. As usual, the Rodgers melodies are fresh as a May wind, artful and surprising as the flight of a barn swallow. George Balanchine's ballets, particularly a long dream dance, continue to set marks for more serious masters to shoot...
...Vienna, School Teacher Waldemar Boden was sentenced to two months in jail for forcing his pupils to swallow half-inch iron nails as "proof of their loyalty...
...also warbles on occasion. The figure and the smile are still there. Patsy Kelly, as Winchell's girl Friday, continues to "knock 'em cold". Nod Sparks, judging from his performance in this picture, will continue to be seen on the screen for a long time, if he doesn't swallow his cigar first...
...power plant and irrigation canals will cost some $400,000,000-$25.000,000 more than the Panama Canal. The rampart across the Columbia, which has ten times the annual run-off of the Colorado, will be 4,300 ft. long, 500 ft. high. It will swallow up 9,500,000 cu. yd. of concrete, three times the quantity required for Boulder; produce 2,520,000 electric horsepower compared with 750,000 of Russia's vaunted Dnieper. In the new dry and barren Columbia basin, Grand Coulee will irrigate and electrify 30,000 forty-acre farms capable of supporting...