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Wednesday, January 22, 1936
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The Headlines
BLIZZARD AND FOG BESET ELLSWORTH IN PERILOUS FLIGHT; Explorer Recounts Struggle With Wind and Bitter Cold in the Antarctic. WAS AWED BY LONELINESS His Life and Companion's Hung on Reliability of Plane and Adequacy of Fuel. REACHED GOAL AFTER TREK Pair, Mounting a Ridge, Came Suddenly on Little America With Its Safe Shelter. ELLSWORTH TELLS OF FLIGHT'S PERILS
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Monopoly (Parker Brothers)
You Share a Birthday With
- Lord Byron (1788)
- Francis Bacon (1561)
- Sergei Eisenstein (1898)
- Antonio Gramsci (1891)
- August Strindberg (1849)
Slang
Slang of the decade
General
damefellaswelllousy
Hardboiled
clip jointgriftershamusgunsel
Swing Era
alligatorjitterbugkiller dillerin the groove
Tech Check
Voice Recorder, Helicopter (Focke-Wulf) & Sunscreen.
Cost of Living (1930)
Loaf of Bread
$0.09
Gallon of Gas
$0.20
Average Home
$3,900
New Car
$640
Time Elapsed
33,007 days ago
(90 years, 157 days)