Word: clocked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Senate clock's hands met. "I note now that it is Saturday morning," purred Senator Tydings. The President's dollar power was gone, and with it the Stabilization Fund, the higher price for silver...
...begins the day at 8 o'clock, digesting thoroughly the daily papers. Breakfast is a political meeting, with the cartoonist, his wife, and his two young daughters threshing out the news. After breakfast he walks to his roomy, book-lined studio where with much pacing and squirming and pipe-smoking, he struggles to express a complex idea in a few vivid lines and a brief, usually wry, caption. The final drawing is done rapidly with a fine brush...
Other lawn games: deck tennis, lawn darts (with a cork target set on a wooden backstop), clock golf, rope quoits, paddle tennis, lawn cricket (a juvenile version of the British game), lawn hi-li (played on a court similar to badminton with wicker baskets instead of racquets and a narrow cord instead of a net), penguin skittles (a complicated version of ninepins with wooden penguins to knock down...
...HANDS ON THE CLOCK-Geoffrey Homes-Morrow ($2). Milk-drinking Humphrey Campbell, called in to find the missing son of a Reno millionaire, solves three murders, puts the finger on a gang of bank robbers. Fast, hardboiled, sparky dialogue...
Climaxing a morning devoted to the traditional Senior literary exercises, including the class oration, ode, and poem, Governor Saltostall, Chief Marshal of Harvard Alumni, led a colorful parade of six brightly costumed classes headed by the 25th year delegation of 1914 into the stadium yesterday afternoon at two o'clock...