Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Roosevelt of Georgia Warm Springs Foundation simultaneously celebrated his tenth year's attendance at the spa, the eighth annual trustees' meeting and Thanksgiving by presiding at a turkey dinner for all resident patients. He & wife sat at the head of the head table with 13 crippled children chosen by lot. For the fifth year Mrs. Eliza Manry, 97, of Lamar County, Ga., supplied a 40-lb. gobbler which required three men to bring it in from the kitchen. Afterwards a tenor rendered "Home on the Range" and on the second chorus the mellow Rooseveltian baritone was heard joining in with...
...When I first surveyed the flooded area,' he says, 'I felt that the dykes could not possibly be repaired before the next flood season. But it was done within six months, and by Chinese engineers. There was not a foreigner in the lot. . . . These dykes of ours were many of them 140 feet broad at the base and 30 feet broad at the top and they were 30 to 50 feet high. . . . At one time we had 1,400,000 of people working on the main river dykes. The amount of dirt used would put a dyke around the earth...
...comeback vehicle. She seems very well preserved and sings through her teeth in a sprightly way. Aside from her triangular mouth and a song called "I've Told Every Little Star," the mainstay of the action is June Lang, a blonde who has spent several years on the Fox lot, having her teeth straightened and taking lessons in singing, acting, and diction. Miss Lang has emerged as completely unremarkable a young woman as the cinema has produced in many a year...
...lords of University Hall are a resourceful lot. Confronted with this age-old problem, they remained undaunted. After a process of cerebration, law was established. In precise terms the distinction was made: "He who has not partaken of three years of Latin or one and one-half years of Greek is a scientist...
...Gordon studied law with a view to entering politics, suddenly changed his mind, entered not his father's church but his King's, rose to be its No.1 prelate. Of his four living brothers, M. (for Marshall) Buchanan Lang, 66, is the only Presbyterian clergyman of the lot. He it was to whom last week the Church of Scotland gave the moderatorship nomination, equivalent to election at the General Assembly next...