Word: chalks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...comfort of animals, not humans. Visitors must hike along fenced or ditched paths while animals roam at will through acres of field and forest. The royal party had tea on a clipped, sloping bit of" turf with lions lolling just below them in a huge, sandy-bottomed chalk pit. "Their Majesties expressed themselves," reported the Illustrated London News, "as specially pleased with the tameness of the animals." Last week a visitor's hat blew over the low double fence around the lion pit. Obligingly after it hopped one Stanley Stenson, 25, a zoo truck driver. His ami was stretched...
...motor ship of 5,113 gross tonnage, Leningrad built in 1931, trimly painted, carrying a cargo of cement, mica, chalk, fuller's earth, Caucasian wine, oil of apricots, juniper (gin) berries. All her officers and able seamen had individual outside cabins amidship. She carried two young stewardesses to feed and amuse her picked crew of young cadets. Even her name KNM (Kim} was chosen for pronunciation by non-Russian tongues. Aside from the motto "Ahead To World's Revolution" inscribed in the crew's game room (equipped with piano and radio) she took every precaution...
...reveal that such fears were mere tommyrot among the full grown men at Harvard. Although residents of Revere and Malden have been sure that the Minnesota Ford V-8 seen on the parkways and sidestreets of those towns belonged to the Indiana sheriff-slipper, Apted was inclined to chalk such accounts up to profit and loss, and took the opportunity to tell of his ideas for the country's need of a national unified police force. "If this country had a unified police system, men like Dillinger would never exist," the famous detective is quoted as saying...
...second placers in Schumann and Woodberry of Harvard, Maxam of Dartmouth, and McNabb of Cornell. The relay race will top the program off; and if it were not for the fact that Captain Morse and Johnny White of Harvard are running in other events, it would be possible to chalk a first place in this for the Crimson...
Congress has completed the passage of the Vinson Bill. Chalk up another victory for the Roosevelt cohorts. Having publicly adopted the "policy of the good neighbor" in international relations, and having gone on record against all unnecessary expenditures, the Administration has now used the prestige gained by its accomplishments in the recovery program to force through Congress a Big Navy bill...