Word: cleared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...filling the forward deck with four feet of water. We were carrying a shipment of 477 empty barrels on that deck, and they started to break loose and smash door knobs. . . . To save the ship from damage, we brought her around out of the wind so the crew could clear the deck and throw some of the barrels overboard. Irwin went on the forcastle head and watched the crew at work. But when the third officer headed the ship in the wind again, Irwin kept standing there, although it was the most exposed part of the ship...
...first overage Supreme Court Justice to retire under last year's amendment to the judicial code, 78-year-old Willis Van Devanter deeply resented Franklin Roosevelt's implication that judicial gaffers were responsible for slowing up Federal court procedure. Last week, recalled to help clear the docket of the U. S. District Court for southern New York, Gaffer Van Devanter took the opportunity to put on a burst of speed that left habitues of the lower courts agape...
When he came to Morris Ernst who is also counsel for the American Newspaper Guild, the Mayor in his peculiar idiom cried that Lawyer Ernst had "organized newspapermen into Communism." From a Guild reporter in the press section, clear and loud, came one word: "Nuts...
...London last week everyone was complaining "the sun has not been out since before Christmas." In Venice thermometers crawled down below freezing, stayed there for four consecutive days, while the Grand Canal froze solid. One day it cost $20,000 to clear the snow from Berlin's streets, a rare event, for special gangs of street sweepers rarely have to be employed in the German capital. But while storms and blizzards raged over all Europe last week, the greatest weather-made sensation broke on the Black...
Although the decision of Phillips Brooks House to undertake child welfare work round and about Harvard is gratifying, that body will do well to supplement rather than compete with welfare bodies already at work among underprivileged children. If a careful study is made, it will be clear that much is now being done. Indeed, perhaps the most valuable service P. B. H. could render would be in persuading the University to open unused land as playing fields...