Word: address
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...roar of laughter which followed, Senator Ashurst literally rose to the occasion. Grasping the lapels of his cutaway- in the pockets of which he carries, for souvenir hunters, reprints of the address he made renouncing his opposition to increasing the Supreme Court (TIME, March 1)-he made a deep bow and replied...
When Mr. Douglas ended his address to the undergraduate customers' men. the genteel New York Times reported, "some of his hearers were dismayed by what they regarded as the cynical attitude of the speaker...
Another main address will be given by Professor William F. Peterson of the University of Illinois after the Association's annual dinner on Friday evening, on "Environmental Effect and Organic Differentiation...
...nightfall a silent army of militiamen and parents, digging in the weird glare of floodlights strung above the wreckage, had recovered almost 400 bodies. Over a hastily assembled public address system the death roll was droned out to the waiting crowds of parents, newshawks, curiosity seekers. Over the rutted red clay roads, barred to other traffic, slid a steady line of trucks, bearing bodies to improvised morgues and first-aid stations in New London, Tyler, Overton, Kilgore, Henderson. A hospital about to be dedicated in Tyler was hurriedly opened, soon filled to overflowing. Ether, chloroform, bandages, coffins, everything failed...
Procedure of the draw is simple. For every ticket sold, at $2.50 each, a stub with the buyer's name and address goes to Dublin. The stubs are churned together in a large drum. In another, smaller drum are churned slips of paper on which are written the names of the horses entered in the race. Of the money paid in to the lottery, about 60% goes for prizes. The prize money is divided into units of $500,000. For each unit one ticket-holder's name is drawn from the big drum simultaneously with the drawing...