Word: brows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With words of praise and affection, a bronze bust was unveiled during the commencement of Alabama's Tuskegee Normal & Industrial Institute last week, disclosing the image of an aged Negro with benign eyes and wrinkled brow, wearing an old-fashioned coat, a wing collar and flowing tie. It was a likeness of George Washington Carver, and its presentation climaxed his long, remarkable, well-publicized career. Made by Sculptor Steffen Wolfgang George Thomas of Atlanta, it was paid for by George Washington Carver's admirers, black and white, mostly in $1 subscriptions...
Wiping the sweat of House competition off his brow, Adolph W. Samborski, director of Intramural Athletics, last night issued the final standings for the Straus Trophy. Not unexpected is Kirkland's top position. Somewhat unexpected is the discovery that Eliot, several points behind Lowell when winter hostilities closed, passed the Bellboys on the home stretch and nosed into second place behind the Deacons. Also noticeable is the fact that the order in which the Houses placed in these final standings is the same order in which the crews finished; perhaps a new tradition will arise: "As the crew goes...
This week on the eve of the new parliamentary session the furrows in Premier Blum's brow grew deeper. So apprehensive was the Paris Bourse that Bank of France stocks dropped 585 francs ($26), nearly one-tenth of their value. Meantime 30,000 small storekeepers assembled angrily in the capital to denounce Premier Blum's two-days-a-week closing order...
...they remained fixed. Now, nurtured by Professor Packard's courses, and with the tremendous flowering of radio, which is based entirely on ear-appeal rather than the flourishing of arms, the true clocution which the prizes were founded to promote is returning to its rightful prominence. The beetling brow and clenched fist of the ward-heeler are lost on the radio audience; his persuasion must now be based entirely on what the says, not on what he does, and such demands an ability to express ideas in clear spoken English...
...Radcliffe girl was composing a lengthy message to the home folks with much pencil-biting and puckering of brow. We didn't go so far as to peck over her shoulder but it was evident that it was an urgent request of some kind and she was afraid the demand was couched in too dictatorial terms. Some mollifying touch was necessary to close...