Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...routine of taking X-ray pictures, put her head through the door. She was just in time to see Mrs. Fusco knocked down for a third time. The girl's screams summoned a man who turned off the current which then let Frank Brown fall unconscious to the floor...
Every British schoolboy learns that in 1348 the Countess of Salisbury embarrassingly shed a garter on a crowded, royal ballroom floor. Courtiers tittered but gallant Edward III saved the situation by putting the thing on his left leg, proclaiming, "Honi soit qui mal y pense" (Evil be to him who evil thinks). Thus was inaugurated the Most Noble Order of the Garter, most exalted in the British Knighthood. It is one of two Orders which admit women...
...Architects Philip L. Goodwin & Edward D. Stone, the new museum will be a block of concrete, white marble, dark stone, glass brick and plate glass, the first "functional" museum building in the U. S. Taking advantage of its $1,000,000, block-deep plot, almost the entire ground floor of the new museum will be walled with glass, so that pedestrians on 53rd Street will be able to see temporary exhibitions as in a gigantic showcase. Upper floors will be rearranged with movable screens to suit whatever type of exhibition is on the calendar. Higher up still will...
...steer many pepper consignments to New York instead of London. For years the world's largest pepper user (30%), the U. S. then for the first time displaced England as a pepper mart. This led logically to last week's establishment of pepper trading on the busy floor of the New York Produce Exchange...
...came-four planes dropping bombs. Fifty-five (42 of them women and children, says Paul) were killed. In a rage of revenge, Government guards massacred their rebel prisoners. Paul went into Iviza next day to find out what was going on, saw scores of dead bodies on the floor of the prison. He recognized many of the faces. By that time he was ready to go. When a German destroyer came to evacuate foreigners he took his family and an Ivicenco friend aboard. What was going to happen to the friends who could not get away he knew...