Word: holes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marine fire inspectors. A troublemaker since she was built in Hamburg in 1923, the Deutschland in 1925 collided with the Britisher Martin Carl in the English Channel, same year cracked two other ships in the Elbe, had a mild fire at sea in 1929, and in 1933 stove a hole in the Munson Liner Munargo off the Statue of Liberty in New York...
...that the New Deal handwriting is on the wall. Last month legalistic skirmishings ended when Chairman C. E. Groesbeck of Electric Bond & Share agreed to file integration plans in keeping with the holding company ''death sentence'' (TIME, Oct. 24). Last week the industry poked a hole in the dam that has held back some $3,000,000,000 worth of replacements and expansions in the last two years. On the face-saving excuse that the utilities must be geared for national defense, 16 potent utility financiers on the National Defense Power Committee agreed to place "immediate...
...also had been stricken by Depression, was $11,000 in the hole, had only 4,000 members. Redefer saw that Progressive Education's future must be in the public schools. Dynamic Willard W. Beatty, then the association's president, and other Progressives were beginning to prevail upon the Rockefeller General Education Board and Carnegie Foundation to finance large-scale, public school studies by P. E. A. commissions, which in five years have received $1,000,000 from the General Education Board alone...
...Crimson line, with guards Dick Row and Endy Peabody pulling out, blocked beautifully, while occasionally tackle Tom Gardener would also come around to clear out the hole. On off-tackle smashes, usually with Spreyer carrying, the Yardlings were piling three men ahead of the runner as interference. Ted Lyman, blocking back, did a superlative job on cleaning out the Blue backers...
...holes along the edges enable the operator to pick out immediately and in correct order all cards for overdue books on nay particular day. For this purpose all the cards that come in during the day are stacked together and put in a press which cuts a notch in the hole corresponding to that day, after which the cards are filed in the record. Then on the days when books fall due, only three times a week this year, an operator goes through the files with a long "darning needle." He thrusts this through the holes for that...