Word: crisps
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Long Beach, Calif., in a regatta organized by Los Angeles promoters, University of Washington beat Yale, sprint champion in the East, by six feet, over the 2,000-meter Olympic course. Nearest thing to a 1933 substitute for the canceled Poughkeepsie regatta, the race was won against a crisp bow wind in 6:38 4/5 -10 sec. off the Olympic record...
...were usually questions of broad social significance. Public-minded, unselfish, a disciple of Liberals Oliver Wendell Holmes and Louis Dembitz Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter has turned down a seat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court and partnerships in firms worth $200,000 a year. Now 50, a man with a perpetually crisp, alert expression, and a charming wife, he will take a leave of absence next year...
...Department appointment three days after the inaugural. For his personal staff the new Assistant Secretary picked Arthur Mullen Jr., son of Mr. Roosevelt's Chicago convention floor manager; Celeste Jedel, 22, a pretty honor student out of one of his Barnard classes; Annette Pomerene, 23, a tall, dark, crisp graduate of Hunter College. Celeste Jedel has her desk in his office, is carried on the department's rolls as a member of its legal staff. She used to help Dr. Moley run his Barnard classes, manage his tea parties. So well does she know the current...
...hundred of the 174 girls at smart Ethel Walker School in Simsbury, Conn, sat supping one night last week in the school's big, square "Four Corners" dormitory. All at once there were uneasy stirrings. At a crisp command the girls arose, marched out on the lawn. While teachers called the roll they watched flames writhe and shoot through "Four Corners." It soon burned to the ground and with it the belongings of 40 of the younger Walker girls-green wool and cotton uniforms, white crepe de chine evening dresses, riding habits. They had no place to sleep...
...days later a huge trimotored liner of Britain's Imperial Airwrays, flying from Cologne to London, burst into flames, plummeted to earth near Essen, Germany. All twelve passengers and the crew of three were burned crisp...