Word: handedly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Minnesota-Purdue football game at Minneapolis, her first since she enrolled at Radcliffe College 38 years ago, went famed blind and deaf Helen Keller. Sitting next to her, Companion Mary Agnes ("Polly'') Thomson clasped her hand, signaled the action and color of the game, ''telegraphed" the gains & losses play by play. As Minnesota won, 7-0, Miss Keller jumped to her feet again & again, cheered wildly. Said she: "I surely am pulling for Minnesota today. . . . Those beautiful kicks are really the poetry of motion. . . . They were beautifully matched teams...
...eyes were available, so he removed the cornea from the eye of a white giant rabbit and stitched it over Hoffman's iris. Last week Hoffman declared that he could see light, and when a nurse moved her fingers before his eyes at unannounced intervals Hoffman "called her hand...
...Continental's longtime head, handsome, suave, bright-eyed Earle Bailie. Born in Milwaukee, this 48-year-old banker began as a lawyer, in 1919 joined J. & W. Seligman & Co., became a partner in four year. He enjoyed a brief moment of national prominence in 1934 as right-hand man to Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr., was forced out by Senatorial objections to his Wall Street background...
...scare paralysis waned last week, underwriting and security markets revived hand in hand. On the New York Stock Exchange heavy buying volume shot the Dow-Jones industrial average to a new 1938 high of 149.75, which was "confirmed" by a new peak since January of 30.91 for the railroad averages. Underwriters were heartened by the successful sale of a $37,500,000 refunding by Virginia Electric & Power Co. and a $42,000,000 refunding by Michigan Consolidated...
...Symmes's family quarrels, his feuds with vindictive Portygee workmen. Meanwhile, Bain has an affair with a schoolteacher, visits Portygee families, gathers a vast anti-Symmes lore. His complete triumph comes when he saves Symmes's life. By this time Bain has so far got the upper hand that he even has a sneaking affection for the mean old devil...