Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt sent a modest request that his nomination be withdrawn, suggested that Secretary of State Cordell Hull was more deserving of it. Since Mr. Hull, with equal modesty, had already told the Cubans that he thought the President deserved the Prize, eight Latin American republics who were preparing to line up for a costless compliment to their big Good Neighbor were left in a quandary...
...miles from my home there is an imaginary line. . . ." With these words Pennsylvania's Governor George Howard Earle last week startled 600 members of Washington's Southern Society dining in the Willard Hotel. His hearers, being Southerners, supposed at once that he was referring to the color line. Only two years ago his Legislature passed and he proudly signed a law giving Negroes equal rights with whites in all Pennsylvania's hotels, shops, restaurants, theatres (TIME, Aug. 12, 1935). Useful as that law has been in winning Negro votes for the Democratic ticket in Pennsylvania, today, when...
...game was knoted. In that inning after McTernen was out at second trying to stretch a single into a double, three hits and a fielders choice scored two runs and left three aboard. Then with two out Captain Tom Bilodeau slashed out a fierce drive down the third base line for a circuit elout to bring in four more fairies...
...woman staggering along with her tongue out. She was only becoming first across with tongue out. Two postmen took their lunch hour to be first mail-carriers across. Other firsts: the man who pushed a pill box with his nose, the girl who walked the chalk line in the centre, the boy who walked backward the whole...
...clearance of the six-lane roadway and two passenger walks over the water, 220 ft. More intriguing than all these statistics are the allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When the sun expands the steel, the towers will lean several feet, the two 36½-in. cables will lengthen 16 ft. Greatest stress of all that the bridge may have to meet is an earthquake. Only six miles away and parallel to the Golden Gate Bridge...