Word: dreams
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...honor at Masonic Temple. He is still healthy, still putting on weight, still growing (three-fourths of an inch, eleven pounds in the last six months). Present height: 8 ft. 8½ in. Weight: 491 Ib. When he quits growing, his family plans to build him a "dream house," with ceilings "at least twelve feet high...
...Patriot. Like all Poles, Paderewski is a fervent patriot. For him only one thing has been more important than his music: his life-long dream of an independent Poland. When the World War broke, Paderewski saw his big chance to make that dream come true. For the duration of the War he toured England and the U. S., playing, speaking at dinners, lobbying with politicians, devoting all the proceeds of his concerts to Polish relief. At this tea-table politics he was a great success. In 1917, with the help of his close friend, Colonel House, he prevailed upon President...
Today, W. M. Welch Manufacturing Co. is a $500,000 Chicago concern. Although diplomas have become so common that most of their owners scorn to display them, practically no graduate of the nation's 30,000 high schools and 1,000 colleges would dream of leaving school without one, and most elementary school graduates demand them, too. Mr. Welch's company, which supplies twice as many as any other firm, sells some 500,000 a year in high schools and colleges and 100,000 in elementary schools. Last week it started production of the 1939 models...
...Graphic's original plan was no pipe dream but a solidly considered plan of rapid transit. It suggested that the city utilize the drained Miami & Erie canal for the underground mileage, cover it with a high-speed roadway for surface traffic. Even in the Graphic days the two-square-mile Basin was beginning to be crowded and Cincinnatians, whose town has more hills and valleys than any other in the Union, were putting their homes back on the hilltops to get above and beyond the city's industrial smoke...
...from heavyweight championship calibre. In the meantime, in order to give customers their money's worth, one sportswriter suggested that Black-jack Joe take on all current contenders-Lou Nova, Max Baer, Bob Pastor, Tony Galento-in one evening, one at a time, like a barfly's dream...