Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Males: Abel, Abimelech, Abner, Absalom, Ahab, Aaron, Ascher, Baruch, Bud, Dan, Denny, Eli, Elias, Elihu, Enoch, Esau, Esra, Ezechiel, Gad, Gideon, Habakuk, Hillel, Isaac, Isachar, Isidor, Ismael, Israel, Itzig, Jehu, Jehuda, Jeremia, Jethro, Joab, Jochanan, Joel, Jona, Jonathan, Juda, Kaleb, Laban, Lazarus, Levi, Lot, Lupu, Manasse, Moab, Mordechaj, Moses, Naftali, Nathan, Nehemia, Noa, Obadja, Pinkus, Ruben, Sally, Salomon, Samuel, Saul, Schmul, Scholem, Sebulon, Sirach, Simson, Teit, Uria, Uriel, Zedekia...
...Wichita, Kans. last week, 26 of the best sand-lot teams in the country, the winners of district, State and regional contests, batted it out under floodlights for the U. S. semi-pro championship. After a two-week round robin, the Buford (Ga.) Bona Allens, who came to the tournament with a record of 96 victories in 112 games this season, went home with a purse of $5,000 and the national title...
...Proviso township, near Chicago, Oscar Atkins, who had lived 17 days in a grave five feet deep in a vacant lot, clambered up, peevishly took down his sign MAN BURIED ALIVE, Ten Cents a Look. In a vacant lot two blocks off, Mrs. Marion Weaver had also dug a grave, had put up a sign GIRL BURIED ALIVE, was taking away all of Oscar Atkins' customers. Two miles away, Lester Mclntyre, buried alive 21 days, clambered out when it started to rain. Said Lester McIntyre: "My grave leaks...
...subsidy plan before an international agriculture conference. But the economists heard nothing the London Wheat Conference had not heard six weeks before: 1) to keep its "fair" share of the world agricultural business, the U. S. is prepared to take "aggressive action"; 2) the world would be a whole lot better if every nation had a crop-control program. Export subsidies Secretary Wallace blithely dismissed as a "type of economic warfare," which may be justified "in certain emergencies" under "exceptional and compelling circumstances...
...George Stebbins Noble applied to the committee on admissions to have his seat transferred to his grandson, 22-year-old Henry Stebbins Noble. Fresh from Yale ('38), where he was a ranking economics scholar, a 150-pound oarsman, Henry Noble is a green clerk in the big odd-lot firm of De Coppet & Doremus, will act as one of their floor brokers. On his family record, he is the No. 1 candidate for president of the Stock Exchange during the Panic...