Word: hand
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...iron clothes, with the right hand. Keep the right knee stiff and the body's weight mainly on the right leg. Keep the left leg slightly to the rear, bending the knee and raising the heel slightly to keep the hips level...
...hospitals. But hospitals have just as many beds (1,000,000). Hotels take in $1,000,000,000 each year. For hospitals there are no comparable figures, because practically all are operated at a loss which neither their directors, trustees nor owners like to make public. On the other hand, they are frank in revealing their facilities for treating patients and teaching personnel. Statistics on those activities an American Medical Association committee headed by Stanford University's President Ray Lyman Wilbur fully reported in the A. M. A. Journal last week. Significant excerpts...
...Toronto's old St. George hockey team, amateur champions. He got his business start in Massey-Harris (farm implements), shifted to brokerage, setting up his own firm, now H. B. Housser & Co., in 1917. For years he had been a power in Exchange affairs, took an active hand in negotiating the merger that really made Toronto a miners' mart, played a big part in planning the new building to house it. At first he was disturbed by Architect S. H. Maw's modernism, for Broker Housser is rated a Solid Citizen with a wife, daughter and grown...
...Klondike. By his account he has won and lost eleven fortunes. He was among the first in the great Cobalt silver rush, but his first big money came from the Flin Flon, which he sold to the late Harry Payne Whitney. Since then he has had a hand in Pickle Crow and Red Lake. At 60, he still prospects by plane, summer and winter, is sometimes called "the gentleman adventurer of the mining world," sometimes "Crack-the-North- Open" Hammell...
...term was up she still had a year to serve. Lenin's first letter to her after their separation is a lengthy dissertation on intraParty politics. When Krupskaya was released she joined Lenin's exile in Europe, and for the next 16 years they led a lonely, hand-to-mouth life, supporting themselves by translations, lectures, literary work, trying to patch together a working revolutionary organization. Once, in a letter to his mother, Lenin allowed his discouragement to appear: "My life goes on as usual and fairly lonely . . . and unfortunately pretty senseless...