Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Canadian Royal Fusiliers, saw service in the Near East, returned to the U. S. to study at the University of Pennsylvania, become an Episcopal minister. A radical, David Colony was assigned to teach Latin at swank Episcopal Academy and assist in a church at Rosemont, both on the Main Line and both cool to his notions. Transferred to more congenial, lower-class parishes in Philadelphia suburbs. Rector Colony established a barter system for the unemployed, a "school of the poor for the poor" which was to be supported by penny contributions. In 1934 and 1935 he wrote articles for Harper...
...yacht which first wins four races. Races are 30 mi. each, alternating between 1) a straight course into the wind & back and 2) a course around an equilateral triangle with ten-mile sides. Last week, after spectators had delayed the start 45 min., Ranger and Endeavour crossed the line, with Endeavour a length ahead but Ranger well to windward. The breeze was light and the boats' job was to work 15 mi. into it, round a buoy and run back before the wind to the line they had just crossed...
...minutes on Ranger in a 15-mi. run down wind, Sopwith then tried a desperate alternative that offered at least a chance of catching up. He sailed far off the course to gamble on a better breeze. The hope, forlorn at best, was frustrated. When Ranger crossed the line, in a deafening uproar from the spectator fleet. Endeavour was barely visible in a gathering fog. She finished 17 min. 5 sec. later, beaten more thoroughly than any boat in an America's Cup race since James Bell's Thistle was beaten by Volunteer...
...browed Fred Eugene Baer punching a typewriter with great deliberation. Over his shoulder looked bald-domed Henry Fitzwilliam Woods, counting the words. When the keys spelled out "wonderful" both men cheered, put on their hats, went out to the nearest bar. There they toasted themselves, for from their assembly line had come the 5,000,000th word they had written for which somebody else took credit. Their business is producing and selling written matter at so much a word under the name of Ghostwriters Bureau, which they founded in February, 1933. The word "wonderful" was part of a speech they...
...closed plant, hopefully working out a new model for production if and when. During the last two months about 450 workers, many of them old Hupp men, have been hired to get the plant ready for full production. This week the new Hupmobile comes off the assembly line in two models, a six, selling for under $1,000 and an eight, listed at around $1,200. President Bradey, whose vacationing this summer has been limited to Sundays with his family in their Ontario cottage, figures that if only 7% of Hupp's faithful owners...