Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their hanger with never a hitch, and his injunctions against coughing, has devoted this last year to the production of a work containing the lest known text of all the plays of Shakspere. He is frequently seen striding across the Yard, or mounting the steps to Widener's top floor with incredible rapidity, while undergraduates try in vain to beat him to the top via the elevator...
Ominous Notes. Nurnberg's week-long spectacle opened with all the traditional ceremony. Twelve thousand sweating delegates sardine-packed the floor of Luitpoldhalle. In the side seats were jammed brown-dressed Nazi nurses, Labor Corps youth. The few scattered civilians stood out like the second thumbs they felt themselves...
...burst on the front page. Apparently it caught Wall Street at a psychologically vulnerable moment. The market was thin, the selling persistent. Routed from its long rut, the trading volume soared to 1,870,000 shares, and at times the ticker was as much as three minutes behind the floor. When the closing bell bonged that day 385 stocks had touched bottom for 1937, and all three Dow-Jones stock averages had reached new lows for the year, industrials being off 8.16 to 164.39 as against a 1937 high of 194.40 last March...
...hack their way through each & every one of its dozen classrooms. They battered blackboards into slate piles and desks into kindling, doused gobs of ink on walls, disemboweled a piano, scuttled kitchen 'equipment, tore up writing paper, tore down wall clocks, scattered movable and immovable objects on the floor until thousands of dollar? of damage had been done and the building looked like a Hollywood set at the end of an Edward G. Robinson cinema. What typewriters they forgot to destroy they took with them, sold for 50? each. Next night they came back. This time they were greeted...
...30th floor of Chicago's Board of Trade Building is a door with the legend MR. AUGUST KOCHS. Inside is a large suite whose three main features are Mr. Kochs himself, his secretary for 30 years, stout, clamp-lipped Miss Millie Bott, and a small oil painting of an alchemist by a 19th-Century German named Eickinger. Mr. Kochs considers the painting "appropriate" for he is himself a chemist of long standing and high success as president of Victor Chemical...