Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Nanking Road side of the narrow lounge, hurdling overturned tea tables, chairs and prostrate forms of guests seeking the safety of the floor. Through the gaping windows on the Nanking Road I could see at least 50 persons writhing on the sidewalk and roadway. Three foreigners were trying to crawl over the bodies of dead Chinese...
...farmland. Other fissures snaked across his property, threatened 80 acres more. Salmon Falls Creek ran yellow with volcanic dust and yellow puffs spurted from dry fields. Muffled thunder rose from underground, as though boulders were detaching themselves from the roof of a subterranean cavern and falling to the floor. The first canyon continued growing in the direction of the stream. If it reached there geologists expected to see the river disappear underground. They feared a sudden, widespread collapse which might engulf adjoining farms, cause a destructive local earthquake...
Philadelphians know tall, grey Lawyer Scott as the senior partner in the firm of Scott & Burton, a specialist in real-estate practice, the onetime (1907-15) independent Republican floor leader in the Pennsylvania Legislature. His neighbors in Chestnut Hill know him as just the kind of devoted father who takes naturally to doing homework. More than two decades ago Lawyer Scott began answering questions for his daughters Nor (Eleanor), Winkie (Sylvia) and Net (Henrietta), soon extended his advice and counsel to his nephews, Edward and William McKendree Scott Jr. When they were very small, Lawyer Scott taught them to count...
...Androscoggin River. He first went there to be near his old Cleveland friend. Neurologist John George Gehring, who had bought an old inn in Bethel for a private sanatorium.* When Dr. Gehring died in 1932, aged 75, Mr. Bingham, who had given $200,000 for the John G. Gehring Floor at the Neurological Institute in Manhattan's vast Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Centre, bought his good friend's inn. Last April Mr. Bingham gave $400,000 to found for Professor Joseph Hersey Pratt of Boston's Tufts Medical School, a Joseph H. Pratt Diagnostic Hospital. Last week...
There was some uncertainty as to whether the Charter Jubilee Art Show which got under way in Chicago last week was the largest such exhibit ever housed in one room, but everyone agreed that it was the longest. It was held on the second-floor gallery of Chicago's Navy Pier, where that city's proletariat is accustomed to flock on Sundays for recreation. Distance from the gallery's west entrance to the far end is 1,300 ft., and since the paintings hung on both walls a half-mile march was necessary to see them...