Word: anchors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Smoothly in his stride, Chamberlain cheerfully shunted the suggestion of world stabilization of currencies made last week by U. S. Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau (TIME, May 20): "Just as it is no use to try to anchor a ship if the anchorage is always shifting, so it seems to me it would be futile to attempt to bring about stabilization in that way until we can see some prospect of stability of conditions after that stabilization has been effected. All I can say, therefore, is that stabilization is one of our ultimate objectives. We are now watching, and shall...
...Baton Rouge policeman by night, posed for the Press and languidly tossed a 12-lb. shot 62 ft. ½ in. to break the world's record of 60 ft. 5½ in. His famed former teammate, Quarter-Miler Glenn Hardin, won the 400-metre hurdles, then ran anchor on the Louisiana State two-mile relay team that nosed out Army. Temple's spry little Negro Eulace Peacock took the 100-metre dash and the broad jump...
...left Cornell in 1916. Though no bridge player, he invented a few years ago an electrical bridge table which shuffles and deals the cards. Though no musician, he saw that a pipeless organ would have many a practical advantage. Pipes require space, are expensive to install. Usually they anchor an organ for life, and changes in temperature will set them out of tune...
...Anchor Line executives credited a 48% quarterly spurt over last year in cheap tourist bookings to the Jubilee...
...Pacific. Director Vidal's Douglas was to determine: 1) whether land stations on both sides had sufficient range to make the Kruesi Compass practicable in transpacific flying; 2) whether ships' transmitters could be used in lieu of broadcasting stations; 3) whether it would be practicable to anchor miniature seadromes at intervals over the Pacific, use them as 24-hr. broadcasting stations. Estimated useful range of the Kruesi Compass over water was 700 mi., out-&-out maximum 1,500 mi. The windowless Douglas, manned by Army blind flying experts, took a "feeler" trip out over the Pacific, located several...