Word: basket
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...yellow on the tall white peaks. That was when they fell in love. Then he confessed he was married. She confessed she was 35. So Fanny goes back to Manchester. The innkeeper does not see her off on the bus, but he sends his little daughter with a basket of autumn crocuses...
...arte lying flat on the stage; the night Marion Talley made her debut with a delegation from Kansas City to ballyhoo her placid, immature performance; the night Antonio Scotti, celebrating his 25th anniversary at the Metropolitan, received as tribute a brace of pigeons hidden in a great basket of flowers...
...cannot be denied that the exact figures of the case show football games as distinctly golden eggs in the H.A.A. basket. To decry this, moreover, is to overlook the fact that these profits go to support the many other athletics that have a place in the Harvard calendar. The chief fly in the gravy is the scale of prices which make attendance at football games so expensive for the average undergraduate or graduate student...
...Audiences chuckle as he staggers out of the surf with his alert, parody Boy Scout expression, ready for any emergency Scenarist Tom Geraghty may devise. Having landed June i, by June 24 he has made saws, jugs, hammocks, hatchet, carpenter's plane, outhouse with scroll-sawed star & crescent, pickaxe, baskets, architect's plans; has taught a parrot to say "O.K.," his dog to be civil to a monkey that vaguely resembles Fairbanks. Soon afterward he has dug traps, caught a goat, made the he-goat run a treadmill to churn the she-goat's milk, trained a turtle to follow...
...Oregon's educational basket are five eggs, capable of being endlessly scrambled. They are the University of Oregon at Eugene (3,610 students) ; Oregon State Agricultural College at Corvallis (5,570 students) ; and three small normal schools at Monmouth, Ashland and La Grande. Since 1929 the State has planned to unify these in some way. The U. S. Office of Education turned in a survey report in March 1931. A program of unification was drawn up and announced by the State board of higher education last March. Oregon taxpayers, like taxpayers anywhere, would like to see great retrenchments, eliminations...