Word: busiest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...holder of the world's heavyweight prizefighting championship is an A-1specimen, the years since 1928 have been even sadder than for the rest of the world. Since Gene Tunney retired, the incumbents of this choice eminence have been uniformly unsatisfactory. Last week was the summer's busiest in heavyweight circles. In it, the promise of a happier era: 1) flickered darkly on the heavyweight horizon and 2) went...
...been driven from the temple," declared Radio-priest Charles Edward Coughlin last week in his letter to Franklin D. Roosevelt apologizing for having called the President of the U. S. a liar. If Father Coughlin were statistically-minded, he could have buttressed his assertion with a list of the busiest U. S. banking houses in the first six months of this year, as compiled last week by the Wall Street Journal. The figures were less impressive than they used to be because security registration statements now reveal the actual amount underwritten by each house. Formerly, and even now with exempt...
...same sort of job during the War. "We are," declared the Defense Coordinator, "rapidly solving the all-important question of food in war time so as to have abundant stores in case of another emergency like the submarine blockade of 1917." Ports. The Port of London Authority, busiest in the world, announced a $60,000,000 program of harbor improvements on the lower Thames...
...month in Manhattan 16 U. S. experts, who had been selected or had qualified in a preliminary tournament, assembled in the Hotel Astor to fight it out. Most intent spectators wrere moppets who paid 50? to study such intricate maneuvers as the King's gambit, the Alekhine defense. Busiest spectators were waiters who brought the players sandwiches, pitchers of milk or coffee. A scheduled exhibition between a 97-year-old player and a ic-year-old failed to take place when the oldster fell down in his home day before the match...
Last spring when influenza struck Barrow, Dr. Greist had the busiest period of his career. Eskimos have little resistance to influenza. In addition, hunting and fishing had brought them so little profit in recent years that they were undernourished. At the epidemic's darkest moment, Dr. Greist had 13 dead Eskimos lying in his Presbyterian church waiting until their tribesmen could get together enough wood for coffins, dig graves in the frozen earth...