Word: lock
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...composers, Newberry, E. Rotan Sargent '36, and Harold M. Parsons '36 have contributed what has been acclaimed by critics as the "finest music ever composed for a Hasty Pudding Show." Such numbers as "This is the Night," "Lock Your Heart," "Play Some Music," and "Zulu Lulu" found instant popularity with the audience...
While making his way through the living room Apted noted that the door leading into the bedroom was being closed and locked. He forced this door (his third) and entered the bedroom which had been evacuated. Opposite was another door leading into a lavatory which had also been barricaded. Striding up to this, he forced the lock (his fourth). He then acquainted the trapped Dunster Funsters with the seriousness of their crime, and withdrew--with four forced doors to his credit...
...Suez, four times that of Panama. Channel depth: 30 ft. Total excavation: 570,000,000 cubic yards, about twice that of Panama. Total construction time: six years. Total estimated cost: $146,000,000 (30% of Panama). Florida's will be a sea level canal (like Suez), not a lock canal (like Panama). It was estimated a lock canal would cost an extra $100,000,000. Finally, to avoid the question of whether the canal could pay for itself, it was decided to make it free to shipping...
...waiting for Mr. Everett James Goodenough to "come home and talk her arm off." Husband Goodenough was in Fairbanks, Alaska where officers of the First National Bank have been having trouble with their vault. To service their equipment, they summoned Mr. Goodenough, of Covington's Mosler Lock Co. To Chicago, to Manhattan, even to Cuba, Locksmith Goodenough has traveled, has watched jammed doors swing open at the touch of his skilled fingers. While on his way to Fairbanks he stopped off at Helena, Montana, worked on the balky lock of a vault in the Federal Reserve Bank. No locksmith...
Does the Wellesley girl notice the details of her college boy friends' clothes? Or is she too absorbed in keeping her own aura of charm undisturbed by a shiny nose, a meandering lock, or even a temperamental shoulder strap to pay attention to such matters...