Word: awayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Wilson Burgess, with a radio ham's foresight and resourcefulness, began gathering all the dry cells and radio "B" batteries he could find in stock. Battling his way home with the stuff, he found his wife and baby scared but safe. But the hurricane had blown his garage away, and with it the aerial for his 600-watt transmitter, WiBDC. In a mile-a-minute gale, he slung a new aerial, by 7 p. m. had his transmitter working on five watts of dry-cell power. He sat down by kerosene lamplight, began calling the amateur's land...
Years ago plump, round-faced Josephine Hancock Logan and her husband set up annual awards for Chicago's famed Art Institute. Grieved by the "modernist" paintings which walked away with the prizes, Mrs. Logan four years ago declared war on her own awards, founded the Society for Sanity in Art, Inc. Last week, at Chicago's Stevens Hotel, the Society came of age with its first national exhibition. Mrs. Logan turned up early, dressed in pink lace, pink gloves, diamond and emerald bracelets, a hat of feathers and flowers. While an eight-piece orchestra played her favorite tunes...
This mighty musical meal over, Cincinnatians stretched, patted their stomachs, paid the bill ($72,000-of which $63,000 had been recovered at the box office) and started to plan for the festival of 1941. Visitors to the May Festival went thoughtfully away, realizing that the nearest thing yet to the muchdiscussed, hypothetical "Salzburg of the U. S." is to be found in Cincinnati...
...Andover the Yardlings proved no match for the Royal Blue, who marched away with the honors 10 to 3. Those of Coach Johnnie Witherspoon's men who saw action were Fenn, Staber, Simmons, Murphy, Turner, Rogers, Alexis, Power, Heiden, Conlin, Wilson, Flint, Rothschild, Marshall, and Sachs...
...this, yes; but useful nevertheless. Given the tutoring schools, there will be tutoring. Given the primrose path, it will be followed. Perhaps tutoring is unnecessary: perhaps it is unethical and undesirable. But if the temptation exists and is flagrantly flaunted about, few are those who will turn away. For the flesh is weak...