Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ports and windows had remained blackened, her outgoing radio silent. Aboard were $44,000,000 in gold, Banker John Pierpont Morgan, Steelman Myron C. Taylor, Cineman Harry M. Warner, Author Erich Maria Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan, who usually takes a suite, had occupied a small room containing one small bed. But, said he, it was "the size I always sleep in at home. Really, I don't have a bed half an acre large." Mr. Warner was in a warlike...
...known that up to August 31 more than 60% of its 2,600 pictures and 400 pieces of sculpture had been removed to three large country houses, locations unannounced. Already moved were 140 canvases of the late great pre-Impressionist Joseph Mallord William Turner. On the floor near the ladies' lavatory, still waiting their turn for evacuation, were the sculptures of very-much alive Jacob Epstein...
...Schultz on retainer in Berlin, Waverly Root in Paris, English Newsman Patrick Maitland on tap in Warsaw. At home plate virtually the whole team is clear and quick-thinking, war-trained Commentator Raymond Gram Swing, who has been eating, sleeping, reading, listening, broadcasting round the clock in a 24th floor office of WOR on Broadway...
With five minutes to go the Exchange governors took a hurried, panicky vote. The acting chairman was in his balcony above the Exchange floor and worried dealers were waiting for the gong to begin trading. (Noble had said it was not to ring until he gave the word.) Four minutes before 10 o'clock the word came: The Exchange had been closed. It did not reopen until November 28 (under restrictions not entirely removed until April 1, 1915). By that time the panic had passed, the New Federal Reserve act was in effect...
...Palo Alto, Calif., San Francisco's Dr. Edna H. Fisher described to a Pacific Science Congress how an otter eats a clam. Description: after catching a clam the otter dives to the ocean floor, picks up a hefty rock, rises to the surface, floats on his back, balances the rock on his belly, clasps the clam between his forepaws, brings it down on the rock with a mighty whack. Shell broken, the otter eats...