Word: 21st
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Drive is a bas-relief of a woodman hacking a tree into logs, a sawyer cutting the logs into lumber, a carpenter fashioning the lumber into furniture. Under this symbolic device last week hurried thousands of furniture buyers from big stores and little throughout the land to attend the 21st semi-annual exhibition of the American Furniture Mart. Elderly, grey-thatched Wade McGowin, head buyer of Wanamaker's, went from Manhattan, as did tall, dark-haired Mike Joseph of Gimbel Bros. and Charles S. Shaughnessy of R. H. Macy. From Sterling & Welch in Cleveland went short, heavy-set George...
...done through the growth of plants is an enticing one.-Physicist Arthur Holly Compton. ¶ The life of man upon this earth is 70 years. A child born today may expect to live 60 years instead of the 35 years it could expect in 1833. -In the 21st Century ... we shall see the majority of mankind approximating three score years and ten.-Dr. Morris Fishbein, editor of the American Medical Association Journal. ¶ Facsimile radio, that is, the sending of pictures and printed matter through the air, is looming on the horizon of science. ... I believe the day will come...
...their glands. Dr. Bundesen was making them believe themselves larded with excess blood vessels. Said he last week to the Herald & Examiner: "Each pound of fat contains 4,500 ft. of blood vessels. So a person 30 lb. overweight has 25 mi. of extra blood vessels." Result of the 21st annual month-long fast during which Harry Wills, walnut-colored retired prizefighter, drank only 1½ to 2 gal. water daily (TIME, April 23) was a 40 lb. loss of weight (245 lb. to 205 lb.). On one occasion "I broke my fast. I was painting one of my apartments...
...Harry (''Black Panther") Wills, who retired from heavyweight boxing ia 1932 and now owns two apartment houses in New York's Harlem, began the one-month fast which he has kept every February for the last 20 years, explained why he was late in starting his 21st fast: "It was my literary work that kept me from fasting in February. You see, my wife does all my literary work, writing to tenants who don't pay their rent and writing to the tax collectors. . . . I planned to make a trip in May but she said...
...Titanic, tipped his cap and stepped back among the crowd to meet his Maker. Vincent went to Halifax to claim his father's body, returning, not to Harvard, but to Manhattan. Then & there he graduated to man's estate, although it was several months before his 21st birthday. It became his job to manage the $63,000,000 worth of real estate which his father left, mostly...