Word: detoured
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Some lean cows obstructing a muddy Louisiana detour cause the collision of two Chevrolets and the death of one of the animals. Next morning Judge Clummerhorn (Raymond Walburn), patriarch of Hope Center, finds Jane Dale (Wendy Barrie), runaway socialite, and Bill Shevlin (Spencer Tracy), duck-hunting lawyer, huddled, together in the car that has remained upright and apparently hating each other bitterly. Clummerhorn has the cars towed to his garage, lodges the young people in his hotel, arraigns them in his traffic court. When the cow, thinly disguised as veal stew, appears on the hotel's table...
...meet, which begins at 3.30, will follow a route slightly different from that of previous years. Beginning as usual near the Larz Anderson Bridge, the harriers will go up the right-hand side of the river but instead of taking in Cemetery hill, they will detour below it; road construction necessitating the change. the runners will finish at the Newell Boat House...
...Scotch-Irish. By the time Max was old enough to work after school. Jacob Baer had advanced from butchering cattle for Swift & Co. to running a small ranch and meat-packing plant of his own in Livermore, Calif. Timid Max Baer went home from school by a three-mile detour because his schoolmates had threatened to thrash him. His timidity was replaced by exaggerated confidence after his first fight. Max Baer's first manager, Hamilton Lorimer, matched him with an Indian named Chief Cariboo whom Baer knocked out in two rounds. After 19 easy victories, Baer fought Frankie Campbell...
Traveling down the long black road on the Annalist's commodity price index, the statistical wayfarer comes to a fork in April 1933. The left fork leads sharply up the rise which followed abandonment of gold. The right fork, which looks like a half-forgotten detour on the price map, is an index in terms of old gold dollars. This index shows that as a group hogs, corn, cotton, sugar, many another commodity, actually continued to decline until almost the end of last year, hardly moved off bottom until this spring. But by last week the Annalist index...
Boorstin came to Harvard from Tulsa Central High School and distinguished himself during his Freshman year by winning the Coolidge prize as the best debater in the Freshman trials for the triangular debates and receiving a Detour. In the next year he won the Barrette Wendell Prize in History and Literature, and received an honorary John Harvard Scholarship. Last year he was elected in the Junior Eight of Phi Beta Kappa, and he became first marshall of the Society. Last fall he was one of the three Harvard men awarded Rhodes scholarships. He has been a member of the University...