Word: bound
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...agricultural producers could not hold their food stuffs off the urban markets, give townsmen a taste of starvation and thus raise farm prices to a decent level. Tall, thin-lipped Milo Reno, belligerent former president of Iowa Farmers' Union, did not see why, either. Somebody, he argued, was bound to starve at current prices. Last May at the Des Moines Fair Grounds bushy-haired Milo Reno, in baggy trousers and a five-gallon Stetson hat. made a loud, fiery speech to 10,000 farmers in behalf of a producers' strike. In cowbarn language he proposed a Farmers Holiday...
...soon as he made his readings of cosmic rays above Mexico, he dashed for a north-bound train. At Kansas City he said good-by to Mrs. Compton and Alan. They proceded to Chicago & home, he to Winnipeg. He wants to get to Chesterfield Inlet north of Churchill in time to note what the solar eclipse does to cosmic rays near the North Magnetic Pole. In his dash Professor Compton hastened past the U. S. Aerological Station at Ellendale, N. D. Thereby he just missed conjunction with his fellow Nobel Laureate, Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan of California Institute of Technology...
Broadway theatrical folk were busy as bees last week. In 17 playhouses rehearsals were in progress. Five new productions were somewhere on the road bound for Manhattan. Managers were picking casts for 27 others. And in New York opened?and closed?the new season's first play...
...mile from the Niobe was the little steamer Therese Russ. Her Captain Mueller leaned over the bridge admiring the sight of the great airship over the picturesque windjammer. Signal flags ran up the Niobe's mast: "Who Are You?'' "Where Are You From?" "Where Are You Bound?" He called a quartermaster to open the flag locker to reply just as a great black squall struck the little barkentine...
...Newfoundland; 7) Irish Free State; 8) Southern Rhodesia. Southern Rhodesians hotly maintain that since they are a "self-governing colony" they have the equivalent of "dominion status," but Southern Rhodesia is not in the strictest sense a dominion. Scarcely any U. S. citizens and not many Mother Countrymen can bound Southern Rhodesia which lies 100 mi. inland, from the cast coast of Africa opposite Madagascar. It is bounded on the East by Portugese East Africa (Mozambique), on the South by the dominion of the Union of South Africa, on the West by the British Protectorate of Bechuanaland...