Word: frames
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Republican nominee did not forget "was the home of John Sherman," sponsor of the Anti-trust Law), and Canton ("The home of truly beloved William McKinley"). Crossing into Pennsylvania, the train, now fairly bursting with local bigwigs, ground to a stop at West Middlesex, where in a small frame house Alfred Mossman Landon was born 49 years ago. Out hopped the spry Governor and strode down the cinder platform to the automobile in which he was to ride with rich and handsome Mrs. Worthington Scranton, Republican National Committeewoman and dowager of Pennsylvania politics. Past West Middlesex' dozen stores...
...school, graduated from a teacher training institution (normal school). The 163 U. S. normal schools and teachers' colleges, many of which came into being during the teacher shortage of a generation ago, still hold a virtual monopoly of elementary schoolteaching jobs, since most State Boards of Education so frame their course and credit requirements that many ordinary college graduates are promptly disqualified. That the normal school subsists on a realm of privileged technical training is the belief of many a U. S. educational observer. Last week Professor Benjamin De Kalbe Wood of Columbia University's Department of Educational...
...been hitched to the release valve. On the governor two V-8 emblems would begin to move as the giant got under way. Mr. Ford gave the wheel seven or eight turns. Nothing happened. The Master of Dearborn frowned, turned to Engineer Smith, and his lips seemed to frame the question, "What the hell?" Smith signaled to keep on turning...
Henry Ford bought the little frame building in Dayton, Ohio in which Wilbur and Orville Wright built the world's first successful airplane 33 years ago. Moved piecemeal to Dearborn, Mich., it will be reassembled exactly as it was in 1903 when it housed Wright Cycle...
...slide trombone which he bought for $4.50 while at Ohio Wesleyan University, led audiences in such rousing hymns as Brighten the Corner Where You Are! The decline of old-style evangelism and the death of Billy Sunday left Homer Rodeheaver less newsworthy but no less busy. Unctuous, large of frame, full of vigor at 55, he is much in demand as a speaker at gatherings of such evangelical bodies as Christian Endeavor. He runs a publishing house with offices in Chicago and Philadelphia, keeps his friends in formed of his activities in periodic news letters which he calls "Rainbow-Graphs...