Word: lettered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With reference to the letter from P96 of Wollaston, Mass, asking for a bid on a perpetual subscription [TIME, May 9], would you be good enough to submit my bid of $20 for the same providing of course, you accept the transfer...
...those of her steering committee, headed by Massachusetts' Arthur Healey, last week helped get Wages-&-Hours its hearing on the floor, but the real reasons for the sensational transformation of Aunt Mary's capsized applecart into a genuine political bandwagon lay elsewhere. They were: 1) a letter to her from Franklin Roosevelt last fortnight in effect urging members to heed her petition, and 2) the Florida primary (see p. 77), which had the result of urging members to heed Franklin Roosevelt...
Last week in honor of Mother's Day, Secretary of War Woodring urged every U. S. soldier to write a letter to his mother. Mrs. Franklin Roosevelt said that flowers on Mother's Day were "sweet and nice," but something ought to be done for the 14,000 mothers who die every year from childbirth. A Manhattan tobacconist displayed a selection of women's pipes and four men in Philadelphia were arrested for breaking into a greenhouse and stealing 2,000 Mother's Day carnations...
...baseball pitcher strikeouts are what homeruns are to a batter-an indication of letter-perfect efficiency. Last week, when 38-year-old Robert Moses ("Lefty") Grove of the Boston Red Sox struck out six batters in a game with the Detroit Tigers, he: i) won his third consecutive game of the current season and the 260th of his 14-year career in the American League, 2) pitched his team from third to second place in the pennant race, 3) benched himself in the lofty niche reserved for pitchers who have passed the 2,000-strikeout mark...
...even the most optimistic signatories of the open letter held out little hope of seeing handsome Baron von Cramm. in his customary flannels and gay-striped blazer, step out on the international tennis courts this summer...