Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...staff was the Crimson's play during the third period, when they rolled up six of their eight first downs to none for their opponents. Through the line they could not gain, but it must be remembered that Cornell has the finest defensive forward wall Harvard will come up against...
...Hell, yes, I do. Why not?" Surest Way. To Secretary of Agriculture Wallace AAA has recently come to stand for ache, agony and anguish. In defense of AAA he has argued that present low prices are due more to bumper weather (even the Dust Bowl bloomed this year) than to any serious defect in the Act. But in spite of the most far reaching crop control laws ever enacted, all three major U. S. crops are in trouble. Wheat, with a near-record crop of 940,000,000 bushels and a whopping 300.000,000 bushel carryover in prospect for next...
...soon answered by British Foreign Secretary Viscount Halifax with official assurances that the Anglo-French entente has not been scrapped or even weakened by the Chamberlain-Hitler communiqué. Neutral diplomatic experts shrugged, "The terms of the communiqué are indeed so vague that, depending upon circumstances, they can come to mean anything or nothing." Mr. Chamberlain dispatched a formal letter of assurance to M. Daladier...
...many a smoker, however, this facetious advice may be unnecessary, since many a doctor has come to the conclusion that, no matter what else it may do to you, smoking does not injure the heart of a healthy person. According to the New York State Journal of Medicine, laboratory rats injected with nicotine showed fewer heart lesions over a period of six months than did rats injected with plain saltwater...
...payroll), 5 ponies, 4 great Danes, 3 lions, 2 elephants, 2 deer, a leopard, a tiger, a hyena and a baboon. He put his 75 employees to work setting up the big top in a vacant lot next door, invited 10,000 poor children to come as his guests for "hot dogs, pink lemonade, popcorn and everything else that goes with a circus." Three extra platforms had to be set up outside the tent to hold the entertainers who offered free assistance. This week, among a jampacked, wildly cheering crowd of children, Mr. Meitus wandered happily, chortled...