Word: lefts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diameter. For years Struve has pined for a big reflector. One day he walked into the office of University of Chicago's President Robert Maynard Hutchins, told him that the University of Texas had received a bequest of $800,000 for an astronomical observatory. The money had been left by William J. McDonald, a Texas farmer who acquired an interest in science during his youth, an interest he never lost though he became a millionaire banker...
...young Czech named Thomas Bat'a (rhymes with "hotcha") left his small shoe factory in Zlin to study mass production methods in the U. S. He applied what he learned so well that by the World War his Zlin factory was turning out 6,000 pairs a day. Then Austria took over the plant and Shoemaker Bat'a returned to the U. S., set up a small factory in Lynn. When Czecho-Slovakia was born in 1918, he returned to Zlin to build Bat'a Shoe Co. into one of the world's largest (capacity...
...left you in the morning...
...more completely known to this womanly presence who was his chosen judge. But never once did his wife give his poems a word of praise, though she knew them like the palm of her hand. Frost's early poems read like invocations of a conscience which, if it left him, would leave him lost-yet whose presence made every day, however perfect, a judgment day. But even these early poems show Frost almost as willing to play hide-&-seek with judgment as to face...
Bert Haines's prize package 150 pounders lived up to all hopes last Saturday as the first boat nosed out the Eli lightweight crew by a third of a length on Lake Carnegie to take the Goldthwait Cup. The Princeton crew was left three lengths in the wake...