Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon of October 31 the powerful Princeton football team came into the Stadium. In its backfield was an all-American running back. He was flanked by other stars, and in front of them loomed a bone-crushing line. And that afternoon Harvard football fortunes turned. The final score was 14-14, but to the delirious Harvard stands, starving for a winning football team, the score...
American Export Lines is a sturdy little concern whose sturdy little boats (none bigger than 9,350 tons) carry about a third of the freight (not including grain) between the U. S. and the Mediterranean. This is the second richest trade route in the North Atlantic, and American Export has no U. S. competitors for it. Hence it is in a better position than many other U. S. lines, made $643.000 last year with the aid of a Government subsidy of $1,479,000. Said Lawyer Kenneth Gardner who pleaded for the new airline before the House Post Office Committee...
...emergence of Secretary of State Cordell Hull as the New Deal's most successful liberal and the integral relation between his 16 foreign trade treaties and U. S. ships; how the Matson Line has edged the wave-ruling British from the South Pacific; how American Export Lines almost made money without Government aid (see p. 30); how Lykes Bros, could lose $7,000,000 in the Gulf in seven years and still net $4,200,000; the diligent falderol and doubtful fun of a cruise to Havana; Maritime Labor; eight typical U. S. ports in paint, seven typical seamen...
Including both steward dietitians like Mr. Heaman, feeders of groups (undergraduates, the employes of big corporations, etc.), and the traditionalists of the industry, old-line French, German and Alsatian "kitchen men," Association members buy upwards of $500,000,000 worth of food every year. Since Repeal they have handled nearly that much liquor business. Typical was the Roosevelt-Du Pont wedding last July when caterers offered what was, for them, a skimpy repast of hors d'oeuvres, ice cream and cakes, but made up for it with champagne. Even thicker than sample-passers from food companies at the convention...
Flanked in later days by a line of resorts including Asbury Park and Bradley Beach, both developed by astute Mr. Bradley, Ocean Grove acquired in 1876 a big auditorium in which spoke not only religious leaders but Presidents of the U. S.-Grant, Garfield, McKinley, Roosevelt I, Taft, Wilson. Last week, when it reached the height of its most successful season since 1929, Ocean Grove was still a predominantly Methodist theopolis, one of a few communities left in the U. S. which are run on a strictly godly basis...