Word: hamming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week some 1,000 employes of the Chevy Chase and Chestnut Farms dairies, their wives, children and sweethearts crowded gaily aboard the steamer Charles Macalester and set off down the Potomac from Washington for an outing. Soon after noon they went ashore at Marshall Hall, ate a luncheon of ham and cheese sandwiches, potato salad, deviled eggs, milk, tea, watermelon, ice cream & cake. Two hours later a child collapsed. Parents warned their children to keep out of the sun. Then men & women began to feel ill. Directors of the picnic mustered most of them aboard the steamer, ordered Captain John...
...Ham and eggs...
...comer to be sure in this veteran crew, but earning his salt. . .At bow we come to Waldo Holcombe who carries the family tradition from lecture platform to the boat house. . .Well intrenched in the cox's seat for three years, at the rope's end, presides Ham Bissell, the only man who can see where the crew is going, and guide it on its straight and narrow path...
...Hint of Ham" While cities were begging for Federal aid and Henry Ford was preaching back-to-the-soil, Congress was grappling doggedly with the question of relief legislation. Before the House Ways & Means Committee lay Speaker Garner's three-pronged proposal to pitchfork the country up to better times: 1) a billion dollars for the R. F. C. to loan to all-comers; 2) a hundred million of what he called "mercy money" for the President to give away; 3) about a billion and a quarter's worth of public works. Speaker Garner appeared before the committee to declare...
Discus throw--won by Francis Schumann '35 (23 feet); second, J. J. Healy '34 (scratch); third, H. A. Ham '33 (16 feet). Distance...