Word: bot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Farmer "Bot" Smith's hilltop field at Fort Fairfield, Aroostook County, Maine, with a crowd of 4.000 standing around in the rain to watch, long-armed Republican Governor Lewis O. Barrows of Maine peeled off his coat to engage short-armed Democratic Governor Barzilla W. Clark of Idaho in a five-minute contest at picking potatoes-a prime product of both their States. Governor Clark pitched his spuds forward into his basket; Governor Barrows scrabbled backwards into a basket between his long, straddled legs (see cut). The winner: Maine's Barrows, 201 lbs. to 197 lbs. He apologized...
...wiry little jumper and sprinter who claims he does better when he isn't feeling well, should take the broad jump, and may crack the record of 23 feet, 6 inches; he came within four inches of that mark against Exeter. A consistent six-footer, he is a good bot in the high jump, may win points if he runs the country...
With that decision, the Court hit bot tom in popular opinion, but soon commenced its steady rise to awesome heights. Until last week the nearest thing to a suggestion of Presidential tinkering was in 1912 when, attempting a comeback, Franklin Roosevelt's fifth cousin flirted publicly with the idea of recall of unpopular judges, actually plumped for re-call of judicial decisions in his Progressive platform. Wrote Felix Frankfurter in 1934: "Certainly neither the Presidency nor the Congress has better withstood the fluctuating winds of popular opinion than the Supreme Court. Despite intermittent popular movements against it, the Court...
...ADVANCES OF HARRIET-Phyllis Bottome-Houghton, Mifflin ($2). An average Bottome (pr. "Bot-tome") novel for those that like them...
...Times and Places of Final Examinations MONDAY, JUNE 8 (XI) Botany 1 Emerson J Botany 14 Bot. Museum 28 Chemistry 5 Mallinckrodt MB23 Classical Philology 63 Sever 29 Comp. Philology 63 Sever 36 Economics 2 Sever 11 Economics 8b Sever 36 Engin. Sciences 5b Pierce 307 English 9 Harvard 2 English 26 Harvard 6 Fine Arts 15b Fogg Small Rm. French 29 Harvard 2 Geology 13b Emerson F German 1c Harvard 5 German 4 Harvard 5 Government 1 Mr. Cole. Sec. C1 C2 Mallinckrodt MB9 Dr. Herring. Sec. H1, H2 Mallinckrodt MB9 Mr. Maddox, Sec. M1. M2 Mallinckrodt...