Word: armed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...feet. Amazingly, Nishida had vaulted higher than Bill Graber or George Jefferson, two U. S. contestants who had been expected to fight it out with Miller for the Olympic championship. At 14:3, Nishida had tried three times and missed, then watched Miller shake the bar with his arm as he managed to clear it on his last try. The height of the bar at the middle?14:1?? was an Olympic record but 2½ in. shy of Bill Graber's historic vault in the trials...
...preliminaries when he is found by an officer of the American Legion which subsequently sends him to Culver in memory of his father. To Tom's friend Slim Summerville presently comes Tom's long-lost father (H. B. Warner). Shellshocked, he had deserted after exchanging identification tags with an arm he found on the battlefield. Slim brings father & son together, incognito. The father is about to kill himself, after seeing Tom at Culver. Tom saves him, learns who he is. Tom plans to leave Culver next year to stand by his disgraced father, when the Legion obtains for the latter...
...Kansas City, to Congressmen investigating Government interference in private business, Mrs. Ida Watkins, weather-beaten "Wheat Queen" of Sublette, Kan., pulled off her hat. bared a brawny, toil-hardened arm. shouted: "I just want to kick the devil out of the Farm Board. ... I draw the line on the doggone, damnable Government interference with our affairs...
With an alphabet board under his arm and adroit publicity before him, Shri Sadguru Meher Baba, Parsee "God Man," arrived in the U. S. last May (TIME, May 2). Though long-haired, silky-mustached Meher Baba indicated he had spoken no word for nearly seven years, he was willing to be interviewed by pointing to his little board, and to be photographed while doing it. Not every one was aware that this was not the God Man's first arrival in the U. S. Last December he quietly terminated an unpublicized stayin Harmon, N. Y., returned unostentatiously to India...
...been to tackle situations at bad moments. He has always had a sentimental attachment for Union Pacific, from which by hard work, spectacular plunging and foresight his father hammered fame & fortune. He was a U. P. director while at Yale, sometimes appearing at meetings with a classbook under his arm. He spent vacations working on the road. His family's direct U. P. holdings are estimated at only 1.63% of the common stock but the Board sought him as chairman for several reasons. The position does not demand a professional railroadman. The chairman is often chosen for his financial...