Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...from the Ethiopian capital describing the death and burial of "15,000 white Italian troops and more than 5,000 native Italian fighters," Acting Editor Lung came to the end of his patience. Entirely discarding headline type, he ran the story on the Panama American's front page beneath a big black line drawing of a fine snorting bull...
...Chief Justice: "The Government has no less right to the energy thus availed by letting the water course over its turbines than it has to use the appropriate processes to reduce to possession other property within its control, as, for example, oil which it may recover from a pool beneath its land and which is reduced to possession by boring oil wells and otherwise might escape its grasp...
...last week was the 30th annual convention of the Memorial Craftsmen of America, an exposition only slightly disturbed by the fact that it occupied space in Manhattan's Grand Central Palace directly above the National Liquor Show. Besides the landscaped family plot, the girders of the building groaned beneath more than 500 tombstones, 700,000 Ib. of marble, bronze and granite. Secretary Roswell M. Austin of the Memorial Extension Commission announced that 1935 was the biggest year for the tombstone industry since Depression, that the average price of tombstones had risen from a Depression low of $350 to nearly...
Heavily muffled and bundled against the cold, Idaho's Senator William Edgar Borah is taking his daily stroll in Washington's Rock Creek Park. He is set upon by two young women in men's clothes. One pinions his arms. The other fumbles beneath his heavy overcoat in search of his wallet. The Senator breaks loose, casts about with his cane, whistles shrilly. Foiled, the two young women turn, flee...
When the readers of the Herald Tribune opened their papers one day last week they found an eight-column streamer headline: END OF ECONOMIC CRISIS. Beneath it, crowding the whole page with small, close-packed type and spilling over into an extra column, was advertised a cure-all for the world's ills. At the top of one column appeared a photograph of the nostrum's author, Anatole de la Marti. After plowing through a column or two. most readers were too dazed to proceed. But the gist of M. de la Marti's plan...