Word: bowle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...King and Queen slept in narrow beds in separate rooms, with a low door between. The door had a knocker on each side. Though the King and Queen had running water in their private bathrooms, members of their entourage had to use old-fashioned wash basins. "The wash bowl sets," added thoroughgoing Miss Tighe, "are absolutely complete...
Only a few lucky physicians would be invited to view each operation. Dr. Cushing always dressed in grey, made few remarks. Only sign when he struck an unexpected problem: he would lightly rub his hands together, or dip them quickly in the bowl of antiseptic solution which stood near the operating table...
...richest valleys on earth. Their homes are filthy squatters' camps on the side roads, beside the rivers and irrigation ditches. Their occupational diseases are rickets, pellagra, dysentery, typhoid, pneumonia, starvation, sullen hatred exploding periodically in bloody strikes. Old American stock, they are mostly refugee sharecroppers from the Dust Bowl of the Southwest and Midwest. They are called the "Oakies." There are 250,000 of them-a leading U. S. social problem, and participants in one of the grimmest migrations of history...
...youngsters beat the whizzing foreign skiers at their own game. Dartmouth's great Dick Durrance sped down the two-and-a-half-mile Mt. Hood downhill course, ''Hara-kiri Hill," in 3:55.3; raced twice around the wicked slalom turns in the Ski Bowl on neighboring Tom, Dick and Harry Mountain in 2:44.6 for the best combined score of all, open or amateur. By far the best of the women in the combined score was graceful, 26-year-old Betty Woolsey of Connecticut, captain of the women's team...
Manhattan Island is a stony spine of land occupied by millions of tons of masonry and 8,000,000 souls. To Europe it is a dream, to itself a business, and to the U. S. at large a cultural gold fish bowl. A lot of people this summer are going to see it for the first time. In sober moments they might remember the work of a woman who has devoted herself for ten years to seeing it, and making her camera see it, as material for history...