Word: fountains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...noon that day, when the blank petition was placed on the Speaker's desk, a swarm of Representatives was already beginning to crowd the well of the House. Jostling each other to get at the fountain pen which Aunt Mary handed to the impatient signers, the House members became so boisterous that the sergeant at arms was called on to exert his authority, marshaled them into a queue which gradually wound half way around the chamber. So many members were in so much of a hurry to put their names on the petition that Speaker Bankhead, after calling hopelessly...
...pump was made of an old log piling from a Boston wharf. It was "turned" by the Maintenance Department and provided with a modern drinking fountain...
...major change in Administration policy is decided upon. But with the glorification of the Professor into a public figure, the immediate Harvard community is bound to suffer, for no one can be a household word and yet remain readily accessible for students or the public to tap the vast fountain of knowledge that is surely there. There was great danger that Professor Frankfurter, with the necessary anonymity that must cloak anyone who enters carefully hooded against the press, both the White House and Hyde Park by the side door, would soon vanish into the clouds and become an "informed source...
...turn into a Senior thesis. He did not particularly care for his thesis, for he had a particular dread of being shut up in a poorly lighted place for hours on end, compelled to pore through book after book, article after article, searching for the headwaters of the fountain of knowledge, a spring which often seemed as elusive as the fountain of youth once sought by Ponce de Leon...
...Bloomington, Ind., freshman Charles L. Templin sold fountain pens to earn his way through Indiana University. Police arrested him when they found the pens were stolen from the university bookstore...