Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless Dr. O'Brien last week awarded her a place of distinction in medical annals. "Excision of the right hemisphere," he wrote, "is not a very common procedure; it is an operation of great magnitude. From what I can gather in medical history this patient survived longer than any who have undergone a similar operation; in addition, it provided this woman with almost five years of happiness with her family. Her death . . .leads one to wonder how long she might have lived had the accident not occurred...
Soccer is the final sport in which those who desire fall insignia can compete. Those who want to boot the ball around will find the large fields behind the Business School and the coaching of Jim McDonald an incentive to longer and Sturdier booting. Johnny Carr, former professional soccer player who handles the Varsity, will supervise the play
...Spanish warship that no longer deserves the name has halted a German steamer on the high seas. . . ." echoed Berlin's Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung. "This ship was under the orders of mutineers who at the beginning of the Spanish civil war murdered their officers and threw them overboard. Therefore it is not only a breach of international law but worse that has happened...
Jesse Owens of the animal world is the cheetah, a species of Asiatic wildcat which can run 70 m.p.h. for distances up to 100 yards. For longer stretches the world's speed champion is the U. S. pronghorn antelope, which can maintain 60 m.p.h. for several miles, 35 m.p.h. almost indefinitely. Rancher Charles J. Belden of Pitchfork, Wyo. once chased a herd of antelope 27 miles in 45 minutes in his automobile. Nearly an eighth of the 40,000 pronghorn antelopes in the U. S. roam over Rancher Belden's 200.000 acres in the Meeteetsee Valley. Few years...
...intuitive, sentimental, had worked as a porter in a barber shop, sceneshifter in a theatre, truck-handler in a brickyard, a dishwasher, harvest hand, Social-Democratic Party organizer, newspaperman. As Edgar Lee Masters followed Spoon River Anthology with poems cut in the same pattern, but increasingly dry and progressively longer, Sandburg followed Chicago Poems with his songs of labor in Smoke and Steel, with tributes to the physical beauty of the U. S. in Slabs of the Sunburnt West...