Word: jogged
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, while pilots were bitterly wondering whether it would take a serious crash at Washington to jog Congress into action, President Roosevelt had a nightmare himself. To a group of Congressional bigwigs assembled for a White House conference, he told the story. It was that one night right after the fatal United Air-Lines crash at Cleveland, he dreamed that he got up from bed, walked to a White House window, and witnessed a terrible crash at the Washington Airport. Most of the conferees knew that only in a dream could anyone see the Washington-Hoover Airport from...
Peter Foley was only moderately flushed by his 26-mile jog. Skeptics along the sidelines suspected that the grinning oldster was guilty of some capricious prank. But they were mistaken. White-whiskered, toothless Peter Foley, who weighs only 119 pounds but has a blacksmith's handshake, had actually run the full marathon distance. But he had started two hours ahead of the field...
...Representative Snyder overlook patronage possibilities. He would have the Government let the job to private contractors in sections no less than 10 miles long. Unlike Senator Bulkley, Congressman Snyder would run his superhighways through large cities, where votes are most plentiful. In fact, two of his superhighways rather obviously jog to make an intersection at Uniontown, Pa., in Mr. Snyder's home district...
When finished, the Trans-Iranian will jog south 865 miles through the middle of the country it serves, joining the Caspian Sea with the Persian Gulf. U. S. and German firms began the line in 1927 on the route suggested by the League report. As often happens in business negotiations between representatives of civilized and more primitive peoples, the U. S. and Germans found themselves out in the cold in 1933. Danes and Swedes took over the partly completed job, parceled it out to subcontractors, some of whom were British. Forty-five thousand Persian laborers and 5,000 foreign skilled...
...dinner with much talk on the coming election, and very merry to find someone for Roosevelt. Thence to see, "The Trail of the Lonesome Pine" and mighty fine it is! Anon, all a bubble, to jog along the River assigning...