Word: calle
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were not for him the museum would probably not be there. His gifts were ready as they were needed, to pay a salary or expenses, to support and expedition, or make a timely purchase. And always his vast store of experience and wisdom was at Harvard's call...
...call this cold in Quebec...
...country faces another, greater depression brought on to a vast extent by policies pursued by President Roosevelt, and at this critical juncture the Chief Executive's only idea is to call a wearied Congress back to put on the statute books another law, the wages and hours proposal the effects of which will be to saddle all industry not only with economically fallacious restrictions, but with dictation from a small board possessed of more powers than even the notorious N. R. A. to change the destinies of American business and American life...
...scene of the book is Key West and Cuba. The story is a sort of saga, disconnected and episodic, of one Harry Morgan, burly, surly, hard-natured "conch" (as Key West natives call themselves), whose life has been spent in the single-minded effort to keep himself and his family at least on the upper fringes of the "have-nots." Owner of a fast motorboat, he charters it to big-game fishermen, also uses it for running contraband. At the book's outset he is seen in a Havana cafe considering and refusing another such shady proposition-this time...
...indicates how far down the long hard trail, of a successful, completely amateur team, the Crimson has traveled. Navy, admittedly one of the strongest teams in the East was fought on even or better terms throughout the afternoon, and yet the team was not ready to call it quits for the rest of the season on the basis of that showing. Nor did the final result have any of the surprise clement that the Princeton tie of last year did. In short, the defeatist atmosphere is gone, and thought of that elusive major victory is now so near that...