Word: lofting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...kept her 220-yd. backstroke championship in a fraction of a second less than her own world's record of 2 min. 57.8 sec. Minnowy little Katherine Rawls of Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-without Georgia Coleman, who turned professional last year, to bother her-ran off with the loft. spring board diving title, 132.44 points to Dorothy Poynton's 123.64. Less freckled than she was a year ago but just as versatile, Minnow Rawls broke her own world's record in the 300-meter medley championship, barely missed regaining her 220-yd. breast stroke title which went...
...counterfeits at varying profit to honest men & women in desperate need of money, and to crooks, to swindlers. Last week in Manhattan secret service agents exposed a ring of counterfeiters who had been selling their bills at a cut rate of $15 per $100. The sleuths crept toward a loft building, dashed up stairs, smashed down a door to find four counterfeiters with their pockets stuffed with their own product. They also found an offset press, several thousand counterfeit $5 Chase National Bank notes, steel and copper plates for $5 notes. The Press was told that the ring had circulated...
...steps of Sever where almost three generations of Harvard men had stepped. A hair of a new moon cradled in the branch of a dark pine over the white blur of University Hall. A cold wind suddenly rose. He cried to himself and plodded upstairs to the dusky loft...
...hard-boiled Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. sold his Argyrol rights to Zonite Products Corp., pocketed his millions and concentrated, in his French Renaissance chateau behind a loft. fence, upon the finest collection of modern art in the U. S. He never lends pictures for outside exhibition, sometimes handpicks a few visitors to look at them. His guards manhandle enterprising reporters. Occasionally he buys a painting by an unknown painter. The canvas disappears behind Dr. Barnes's fence, but the painter is made. As a judge of art, Dr. Barnes is brusque but no booby...
...more handsome Hunter is rising in The Bronx, but in the meantime classes are crowded, jammed in one after another, some in a 32nd Street loft, some in a 52nd Street public school. Many a Hunter girl walks blocks to college, often carrying lunch which she eats in the basement. Half the girls have outside, part-time jobs. A "tradition" of planting ivy from historic places was begun last year in The Bronx. Someone tried to popularize wearing academic gowns but this died out. Hunter thinks its spring "sing" as exciting as Vassar's Daisy Chain or Smith...