Word: floor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to one instructor, there is no excuse for a student not finding one of these amoeba now, because if one should drop on the floor one might slip on it. Biologists under the old plan, typically killjoy, have been heard to say, "Sissy stuff...
Last Saturday, playing on a pocket-handkerchief floor in New Haven, the Crimson poloists took the Yales 17 to 12. This Saturday, when they will have their usual elbow room, even cautious Captain Chester Sargent, grizzled veteran of years of army polo who is coaching the Harvard malletmen for the first time this year, has to admit the cards look stacked for the Crimson...
When the two teams last met February 19 at the Indoor Athletic Building, a second half rally successfully subdued the Columbia five 86-31. On a foreign floor and immediately after the tough loss to the Quakers, the Crimson may falter tonight, but because of its past record is a slight favorite...
...report maintained that in the course of the excitement "a cook burned his finger and a pot of breakfast mush crashed to the floor." All spectators agreed that Senator Guffey stalked out of the room. When he reappeared after taking a walk along the Susquehanna, he announced that he had reconsidered and would give "wholehearted support" to the ticket after all. But later that day Miner Lewis flatly announced in Washington that, ticket or no ticket, he would support Miner Kennedy for Governor. Did this mean, newshawks asked, that C. I. O.'s half-million Pennsylvania voters would walk...
...weeks after the first issue, TIME moved from its cubicles in the office of an advertising firm (just around the corner from Fifth Avenue and Manhattan's Public Library) to larger quarters on the second floor of an East-side loft building (No. 239 East 39th Street), which prior to Prohibition had been a brewery. Here on Sundays there was heat but it was sometimes hard to gain admittance. One contributor, bringing his weekly contribution and unable to get in, resorted to drastic means. He picked up a rotten turnip in the street, gave a heave, and it landed...