Word: floored
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...invitation, after curious developments. Representative Olger B. Burtness of North Dakota, large of frame, round and red of cheek, presented a resolution to send five U. S. delegates to Reykjavik next June, to provide them with $50,000 for a statue or memorial of Lief Ericson, Icelandic hero. Republican Floor Leader Tilson called the proposal "one of those handsome things we ought to agree to." The resolution would have gone through with a unanimous cheer, but for the fact that Congressman Burtness, anxious to make a gesture pleasing to his many constituents of Scandinavian extraction, began his resolution with...
...dipped over knolls, swung around curves, the headlights hollowed out a bright cone of light in the enveloping blackness. Suddenly, into the bright cone, four men sprang from the roadside, shouted to him to halt. Before he knew it, Kinne was grovelling on the tonneau floor, a gun at his back. His car, with a stranger at the wheel, was streaking away at 60 m. p. h. A tire blew out. The car overturned. All five men were flung into a ditch, unhurt. W. L. Tribbey and Paul Kille, neighbors, drove up, offered help, were greeted with guns. Would...
...York. Into a Plattsburg hospital early one morning last week two U. S. customs patrolmen carried a human body, dumped it on the floor, hurried away without giving any information except that they had "found it in the road." The body had been Arthur Gordon, 22, border rumrunner. Great was the mystery as to this shooting. New York authorities started John Doe proceedings. Then from Collector of Customs John C. Tulloch at Ogdensburg came this explanation...
...valued at about $113,000,000. Chief fish landed in New England ports is not the famed cod but haddock, one month's catch showing 75% haddock, 16% cod, 5% flounders. The oldtime fishing dory is also outmoded in large scale fishing. Large beam trawlers drag the sea floor with nets, haul up masses of fish in which the smaller fish are often squashed and suffocated. Atlantic Coast Fisheries trawlers have a capacity of 200,000 pounds of fish per trip. They keep in touch with home ports by wireless; bring in as much fish as is needed...
Each house contains within it complete accommodations for a narriedmaster, a Dining Hall, a Common Room for students and one for tutors, and a large library situated on the second floor in the most strategic situation in the house. There will be also an apartment for the head tutor suites for five or six resident tutors and suites about evenly divided between singles and doubles for from 250 to 300 men. Whether squash courts are practical or not has not yet been fully worked out by the architects. If they are found possible they will undoubtedly be included...