Word: bowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...press conference. To surprised newshawks Secretary Hull warmly continued: "I think most of you know our new Assistant Secretary of State whom we are fortunate enough to get into the Department-Judge Moore." "Judge" Moore's long face wrinkled into a pleasant smile. He made a stiff little bow, drawling: "Gentlemen - er- er- good morning. I consider it a privilege to be associated with Secretary Hull. We served together for years in the House, a long and delightful association which I am glad to renew." Correspondents did not miss the genuine cordiality between these two grey-heads. In Robert...
...Lutz of the American Museum of Natural History lately discovered that a cricket, outheifetzing Heifetz, makes a full-tone slur downward from the fifth "D" above middle "C" in one-fiftieth of a second. It makes four of these notes, separated by infinitesimal pauses, at each stroke of its bow. The cricket's stridor is a love song, produced only by the adult male. When the bemused female approaches he tones down his serenade, strokes her with lustful antennae...
Park's excellent time in the first of Friday's events, the novice singles, one minute, three seconds, gave him the victory over W. H. Holcombe, Harvard Varsity bow oar, who caught a crab a few strokes from the finish line. Park took this race from the winners of the five preliminary heats on Thursday, which desposed of a record turnout for one event. His brother, T. L. M. Park captured the men's broad compromise battle in fine style. Holcombe started a favorite for the novice singles sprint, as he turned in remarkable time...
Three and one-half miles off Diamond Head, Honolulu, a motorboat carrying "Sergeant" Kahanamoku, brother of famed swimmer "Duke" Paoa Kahanamoku, and a friend, ran out of gasoline. Kahanamoku slipped into the turbulent, sharky water, grasped the bow of the motorboat and, while the friend paddled with a board, towed it in four hours to a beach near Waikiki...
...business man. That is the important point. Some head men are ready for a showdown, if necessary. (But they would hate it.) An important business man counts for as much with Gen. Johnson as you or I do. The spacious halls of the commerce department, once wonted to bow low when a Business Man have in view, are witnessing strange things. The spectacle is typical of the new heaven and the new earth being manufactured out of professors' ideals and Johnson's dynamic crash and irreverence...