Word: desks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to the patient's story yesterday noon, he returned from a movie shortly before 11 o'clock Monday night. Finding difficulty in locating the light string. Perkins lit a match, which dropped on a pile of papers on his desk...
...Dillon Field House and the Indoor Athletic building where he assists in wrestling. Reports have it that he is as good at finding unbreakable wrestling holds as he is at grappling with a twisted knee. His knowledge of anatomy serves both his constructive and destructive proclivities. At his desk at the Field House when business is light or all his patients are "baking" in the hydrothermal tanks, he spends his time poring over anatomy books or sympathetically follows Soames Forsythe in his quest for "ivory skinned" Irene's love...
...city water and power department before going to Cincinnati in 1930. During the worst of last January's flood City Manager Dykstra, granted unprecedented dictatorial powers by Cincinnati's city council, became a national hero by pluckily wading around in hip boots, staying at his desk for 36 hours at a stretch. Unanimously, drenched Cincinnati hailed him its saviour and hero...
...could feel just what horrid thoughts my friend was thinking. So in order to relieve his anxiety, I went on to say: 'My great ambition on Jan. 20, 1941, is to turn over this desk and chair in the White House to my successor, whoever he may be, with the assurance that I am at the same time turning over to him as President, a nation intact. ... I want to get the nation as far along the road of progress as I can. I do not want to leave it to my successor in the condition in which Buchanan...
...coalminers' sons sat at a walnut-stained steel desk in a Pittsburgh office last week, swaying the lives of at least a half-million other men, shaping the destiny of the whole U. S. One of them, dynamically champing a stogie, was Benjamin Franklin Fairless, a dark, stocky, kinetic corporation executive. The other, suavely puffing a cigaret, was Philip Murray, a lean, grey, scholarly labor leader. When their first talk was over the Labor Leader cried, and no impartial observer disputed him: "This is unquestionably the greatest story in the history of the American Labor movement...