Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days of public inspection. Into a vast, four-story-high Commons Room, whose fluted columns and mosaic floor had just been finished, Chancellor Bowman invited representatives of his students, trustees and faculty to watch a belated cornerstone laying. With Mayor Cornelius Decatur Scully and Steel Heiress Helen Clay Frick looking on, the chancellor gave the stone a proud pat of cement and two husky seniors shoved it into place...
...grew longer, his fame traveled farther. Thomas Alva Edison offered him a job, but Carver stayed at Tuskegee. From peanuts he made nearly 300 substances; from sweet potatoes 118, including starch, vinegar, shoe-blacking, library paste, candy. He showed proficiency in cooking and artistic needlework. He made dyes from clay, dandelions, onions, beans, tomato vines, trees. One of his dyes he believes is a rediscovery of a lost purple used by the Egyptians. He made paints from clay, peanuts and cattle dung. With these he painted pictures, some of which hang in art galleries. From wood shavings he made...
...equipped with a high-powered rifle and good eyesight, Jimmy's attitude changes. When luck puts him in a church steeple with a perfect chance to pick off five members of a German machine-gun nest, he murmurs, "What a dish!'' and bowls them over like clay ducks in a shooting gallery...
...meningococcus is a close relative of the gonococcus and Dr. Long, busy with the former, suggested that Dr. Colston, brother-in-law of Johns Hopkins' famed Urologist Hugh Hampton Young, try the drug on his gonorrheal patients. Also quick to action. Dr. Colston summoned young Drs. Henry Clay Harrill and John Essary Dees. They went to work only two months ago, promptly saw enough to warrant announcement of one of Medicine's longest strides this century...
...Walter Beaver, Berwyn, Pa. electrician: the 32nd annual American clay target championship at singles; with 198 birds out of a possible 200. to 197 for Tracy Lewis of New York; on an overcast afternoon in an east wind that made the targets dip and soar: at Pelham Manor, N. Y. ¶ The New York Giants. 4-to-1: a baseball game against the Chicago Cubs, in which famed left-handed Pitcher Carl Hubbell tied the modern major-league record of 20 consecutive League victories established by left-handed Giant Pitcher Rube Marquard in 1911 and 1912; in New York...