Word: home
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This outpouring of student enthusiasm," he began huskily, "touches me deeply. ... You have shown me the way home . . . confirmed my belief that being the president of a university is the greatest way to high service. ... I have decided to stay...
...page pamphlet titled Lest We Regret, Travelers' copy writers drove home the meaning of D. U. to the heavy-footed driver. Energy increases as the square of speed. Thus, if speed is doubled, energy is multiplied four times; if tripled, is multiplied nine times. If 25 miles an hour is the speed of one D. U., 35 is that of two, 50 miles of four, 60 of six and 75 of nine...
...syndicated cafe-society column, orchidaceous Lucius Beebe last week digressed to announce an exciting discovery: that holders of marine-insurance policies on personal property lost away from home can collect for lost golf balls. Mr. Beebe further implied that the insurance people themselves had just discovered the fact and that they were scared to death...
...oldest vehicle maker. Its net sales once reached $166,000,000. It once employed famed Knute Rockne as a sort of supersalesman. When the company failed in 1933, after three years of refusing to admit the existence of Depression I, its grand old man, President Albert R. Erskine, went home and shot himself. Later, under former Vice Presidents Paul Hoffman and Harold S. Vance, it became the first automobile company to reorganize under famed Section...
This brought Lázaro Cárdenas hustling home, where he canceled appointments right & left to talk to Donald Richberg. Though the betting had been odds-on that the dickerings would remain stalemated, Mexico City was electrified two days later by an official announcement that a solution was expected within a week...