Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Observation's victims were brought to the ferry house at 134th St. In that same place 28 years ago were laid out the bodies of 1,021 children, teachers, parents who. bound on a Sunday-school picnic, were burned or drowned when the excursion steamer General Slocum caught fire a few hundred feet away. Next to the General Slocum, the Observation took its place as the greatest marine disaster around New York...
Some confusion is bound to arise from your use of the word "junk," which covers a large number of waste materials, in conjunction with scrap iron. The impression is made that there is a great deal of wealth to be made in the waste industry. The only element of truth that may be taken from such an impression is that the scrap dealer creates national wealth out of waste materials, but not personal wealth. The margin of profit in this industry is small; the knowledge required to preserve even this small margin of profit is a specialized knowledge...
Early last week Grandmother Zetkin, now 75, lay sick abed in Moscow, her "second home," for she is a duly elected Communist Deputy in the German Reichstag. Came an ambulance. Frau Zetkin was carried to a Soviet wagon lit bound for Berlin. Day & night tough-muscled young Reds stood guard in the train lest German Fascists break in. Grandmother Zetkin was going to the German capital to open the newly elected Reichstag (TIME...
Instead of being a hodge-podge of fiction, general articles, household hints and dress designs scattered without plan through pages of advertising, the new McCall's looks like three magazines bound as one. The first 30 pages are designated "News & Fiction." Therein are stories, reviews of cinema, music, radio, books, religion. Then the reader comes to a second cover in four colors, showing a detail of a table set for luncheon. This section is named "Homemaking." Fifty pages farther back a third color cover (woman at a dressing table) introduces "Style & Beauty." Advertisements are distributed to correspond. Every advertiser...
...taken off from Floyd Bennett Field five hours earlier. They were Thor Solberg, 38, who was a motorcycle racer in Norway before coming eight years ago to the U. S.: and Petersen, 35, able radioman who accompanied Amundsen to the North Pole, Byrd to the Antarctic. They too were bound for Oslo. Their plane had been provided largely by Shoeman F. L. Emerson, in whose honor it was named Enna Jettick. Enna Jettick did not get as far as Harbor Grace. In a snowstorm near Darby's Harbor, N. F. the engine failed. Pilot Solberg just missed crashing into...