Word: drawings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...English dictionaries to be placed beside each guest sitting next to an Argentine. When fierce competition arose between hostesses as to who should entertain whom the night of the first game, Mrs. Linn placed the names of all eligible guests in one of her hats, had the competing hostesses draw them...
Suddenly from a jutting behind the officials, he saw the calm, lithe little traveler emerge, draw a huge bulldog revolver, fire twice. The President crumpled at Agent Parke's feet. The hot waiting room reverberated horribly...
When the fighters touched hands at the beginning of the fifteenth, Stribling's face was smeared with blood, his mouth was cut and swollen, his left eye had begun to draw together bruised and dark like the halves of a musselshell. He tried to clinch immediately but after two minutes of fighting Schmeling landed the right he had been trying for all through the fight. Stribling fell on his face, got up when the referee had counted nine. He tried to clinch again. When the referee saw that Stribling, leaning in, was supported almost entirely by the punches Schmeling...
Take a pencil. Take a U. S. map. Draw a line from Canton, Ohio, to Williamsport, Pa., then to the middle of the southern Tennessee border, then back to Canton. Within that wedge lies the great eastern bituminous coal field. Mark off the central third of the wedge: the southwest corner of Pennsylvania, the northern spike of West Virginia, a narrow strip that lies beyond the Ohio River in Ohio. If you drive fast, your car will take you across that country in five hours. It is "The Pittsburgh Area." the richest bituminous deposit in the world, whence comes...
...recognition of the outstanding importance to the nation of the continuation to effective completion of the services of Dr. Wilbur as Secretary of the Interior, his leave be extended to and including Dec. 31, 1932." Dr. Robert Eckles Swain will continue as acting president; Dr. Wilbur will continue to draw no salary. Opponents of the plan to abolish Stanford's lower division (TIME, June 8) took comfort in reflecting that while Dr. Wilbur is absent the plan will not be consummated...