Word: bedded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Stealing a three-day weekend. President Roosevelt skipped off to Hyde Park, found his mother in bed with a "slightly fractured" thighbone, the result of tripping over a step as she left the Manhattan apartment of her granddaughter, Anna Roosevelt Dall Boettiger. There he scuttled about his acres in his own car, went to church, looked in on a local baseball game, pressed a button opening a new harbor development at Balboa. Calif. Then he wished his mother a speedy recovery, boarded his special train, sped back to Washington...
...Depression, she had to take out a mortgage, planned to pay it off with a $3,000 Home Owners Loan. Last week the loan was refused, her mortgage foreclosed. Given three days to raise the $3,000, 80-year-old Mrs. Field had a heart attack, was put to bed seriously ill. Desperate, her son Eugene II dispatched a letter to a St. Louis collector of Fieldiana who recently prevented the destruction of the poet's birthplace. Surprised to learn Mrs. Field was still alive, the collector gave the letter wide publicity. At once Phi Delta Theta, Field...
...down a straggler. There is a group of five lions, including a superb black-maned male. Four giant sable antelopes are resting in a copse of acacia trees. A pair of Bongo antelopes are pushing into a bamboo jungle, disturbing a forest hog which heaves up from its bed among ferns and orchids...
...nickel- which is still the only alloy or metal (except costly platinum) capable of offering prolonged electric resistance without burning out. Of this alloy or its variants are now made the wire elements which glow in electric stoves, heaters, curling irons, percolators, toasters, sterilizers, waffle irons, cigaret lighters, bed pads. Such an alloy is also used in 85% of all U. S. spark plugs. Metalman Marsh was the first man to make it, first to produce it commercially, first to put it on the market. More than half the alloy wire in U. S. heating elements is still made...
...back to the Tower, the line still running through my brain: "Miracles are anything that create faith," and thus to bed watching the Great Dipper...