Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...siege went on hour after hour, the baffled crowd began to yap and howl like hounds at a treed possum. Tear gas fumes were whiffed away by a sharp breeze. Hurled torches fell short of their mark. Then, early in the sixth hour, a State trooper took off his shirt, soaked it in gasoline, inched up to an outbuilding, lighted the shirt, tossed it into the shed. Up it blazed and the breeze swept the flames across to the house. The tindery old clapboards went up with a roar...
WILL OSBORNE, the orchestra leader, has only a slight connection with Yale. He once sued Rudy Vallee, Yale Alumnus, for a sum running past the $200,000 mark. Rudy, Will averred, had copied his crooning from Will Osborne. At that time Will's voice and vocal manner was so much like Rudy's that the radio public could rarely tell them apart...
...annual dinner of the first and second 150-pound crews held last night, Mark H. Dall '37 was elected captain for the coming season. After the election the first crew presented to Coach Tot Hoople a large humidor...
...matches. Haar," an especially bad Scottish mist, swept over all 18 holes, limited clear vision to 100 yd. Because a postponement was not considered sporting, the golfers trudged wearily around, got soaking wet, wore fur mittens between shots. Caddies stood ahead as human signposts to mark the direction of the greens. To make matters worse, hungry birds had dislodged old divots in their search for grub, left a mass of cupped lies...
...thumping 66% ahead of the first three months last year. In April GM's U. S. sales of more than 200,000 cars smashed its previous monthly record set in 1928, and combined U. S. and foreign sales topped a seven-year-old mark. With these figures at hand, GM directors sat down last week to do even more than President Roosevelt and his proposed tax on undivided profits would have them do. After declaring the usual quarterly dividend of 50?, they proceeded to treat stockholders to a handsome 75? extra. Next month GM will mail dividend checks footing...