Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little." Act V was not Franklin Roosevelt's drive home in an open car with a half inch of water on the floor and Mrs. Roosevelt sitting beside him in the downpour, her new inauguration bonnet resembling a last year's bathing cap. It was not the buffet luncheon in the White House with 500 recently soaked notables. It was not the hour and a half spent in the reviewing stand...
...make solar observations on the Cook spectrohelioscope. These data are sent to the Paris Observatory which collects solar reports from all over the world for the International Astronomical Union. Gustavus Wynne Cook is an extremely able and versatile craftsman. In his roomy machine shop on the third floor of "Roslyn House," he made a three-inch star transit of a new type, constructed the motordriven clockwork for his biggest telescope. He has made so many ship models (more than 100) that his wife is hard put to find room for them.. . Born in Philadelphia nearly 70 years...
...weeks, reached its peak two weeks before the Champagne Waltz premiere. At a Hollywood super-dinner to Producer Zukor, Cinema Tsar Will Hays called Producer Zukor "a splendid American', a great leader," Leopold Stokowski conducted a 150-piece orchestra, Paramount's contract players joined in a floor show which, on a basis of combined salaries involved, was doubtless the most expensive ever staged...
...John Benedict Fehr, 78, custodian of the Latter-Day Saints Tabernacle; in Salt Lake City. For 34 years he proudly demonstrated the Tabernacle's famed acoustics to 30,000,000 visitors by dropping a pin over a balcony railing, whispering scriptural lines until the pin resounded on the floor below...
...presence of 750 spectators, the largest audience ever attracted to the Ames finals, the "Root-Pitney" lawyers successfully championed the rights of taxpayers to recover $2,000,000 worth of processing and floor taxes paid under the defunct A.A.A. Counsel for the government was the "Pow-Wow" club...