Word: iced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Republican Convention this week, hoped for quick adjournment next week by the simple process of putting on ice all legislation which has not yet passed both Houses. Major measures slated for discard under this plan were the Wagner Housing bill, substitute Guffey Coal bill, Copeland Ship Subsidy and Pure Food & Drug bills. By the same principle, at week's end, only remaining "musts" were taxes and Relief. Easy agreement was expected on the Relief (First Deficiency) appropriation bill, which had just gone to conference. Only real threat to adjournment plans was the possibility of a prolonged conference wrangle over...
Geologists agree that during Pleistocene times the ocean surface was 7,000 to 10,000 ft. below its present level. Some 3,000 ft. of this lowering could have been caused by the ice sheets a mile or more thick which, in North America, crawled down as far as Kentucky and Missouri and which drained huge volumes of water from the seas. What caused the rest of the marine subsidence remains a mystery. In any case, it appears that the Pleistocene rivers coursed through land that is now submerged and many of them carved deep gorges. That the Hudson carved...
...Senate gymnasium, who has been married four times in his 51 years. Generally credited with being the best actor in the Senate, Senator Reynolds last week continued unperturbed on his gregarious and convivial way about the capital, because in the kind of politics he plays, embarrassing letters cut little ice. Bob Reynolds won his first campaign in 1910 for prosecuting attorney by going into the mountains astride an old mare with two huge saddlebags stuffed with red, white & blue striped peppermint candy which he distributed to children. His second campaign, in 1924, for lieutenant governor, he lost by taking...
...down on the list of competitors. The second week he steadied, tied for the lead with 21-year-old Albert Simonson, youngest entrant. Last week Youngster Simonson, still tied with Reshevsky on the last day, lost his final match. Playing with customary meticulousness and gulping huge draughts of ice water, Samuel Reshevsky contented himself with a draw against his last opponent, became U. S. chess champion by a ^ point margin...
...Irish of Cork not even the American Colored Southerners." Sometimes a new dish led her on a little too far. In Brno, Czechoslovakia "I ate too many dill pikles but the dancing got it down." She saw all the sights. In Madrid, it was bullfighting ("Bull fighting and ice cream are the two best things on earth"); in India, the Taj Mahal ("I would just like to put a glass over it I feel I must cover it over"). And she was not slow to compare national customs, "the American English they are nauty the Scotch very nauty...