Word: clay
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repeat itself in cycles of 23 years. Backing this up last week he showed the academicians how the 23-year cycle could be traced in the water levels of the Great Lakes, in yearly growth rings on trees, in the catch of codfish and mackerel, in deposits of clay laid down by Pleistocene glaciers. On the basis of his cycle Dr. Abbot in 1933 made temperature and precipitation predictions for 30 U. S. cities for 1934, 1935, 1936, stowed them away in a stout safe. With the danger of misleading anyone on the 1934 forecasts well past, Cyclist Abbot revealed...
...looted the island, just missed catching its master. Before next spring, Aaron Burr had been arrested three times for treason in Kentucky and Mississippi. Blennerhassett was arrested twice on the same charge, the second time in Kentucky, where his case was defended by a promising young lawyer named Henry Clay. There followed the great Burr treason trial in the U. S. Circuit Court at Richmond, with Chief Justice John Marshall presiding. Specific charge against Burr was that he had behaved treasonably by "levying war" against the United States. Chief Justice Marshall, however, ruled that no "overt...
...welcome care, To scenes of desolation and despair, Once bright with all that beauty could bestow, That peace could shed, or youthful fancy know To the fair isle reverts the pleasing dream. . . . In 1831 Harman Blennerhassett died. A decade later his widow and his old lawyer, Senator Henry Clay, were trying to get a bill through Congress to indemnify her for the loss of the mansion. Mrs. Blennerhassett died before any action was taken. During the Civil War, both Union and Confederate soldiers used the brushy island and the shelter of its huge old sycamores for a refuge. After that...
...Beverly of Graustark and Thomas Dixon's The Clansman. In Manhattan, George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession was closed by police, while audiences wept nightly at dainty Maude Adams in The Little Minister. Also in Manhattan, a crusading young journalist, who was one clay to record these events and many another of the Century's first quarter, was on his way to recognition as one of the outstanding liberal journalists of the decade. His name was Mark Sullivan...
...Hall of Fame is heavily weighted in favor of men of letters. Of the 13 statesmen already installed, eight are U. S. Presidents : Washington, the two Adamses, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln. The other five are equally familiar: Franklin, Hamilton, Henry, Webster, Clay. It was not until 1930, after running five times, that James Monroe slipped in. But there are 16 authors, five preachers and theologians, five educators. There are seven women, of whom Harriet Beecher Stowe is the only household name. Only businessman is George Peabody, who entered under the colors of a philanthropist. The Electors include few businessmen...