Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...anniversary but the 549th. "Nature" bases its calculations on the charter in the British Museum, which was issued by Pope Urban VI on October 23, 1385. Unless this original source is misleading, the celebration will be one year less than the five and a half century mark...
Cummin had been hoping to better the mark all season, but only last Saturday, closely pressed by his teammate Captain Bob Fisher, did he succeed in doing it. The old record, 1 minute 38 seconds, was made in the Harvard pool in 1930; the new standard is 1 minute 37 2-5 seconds...
Postmaster General Farley, No. 2 man in the business of getting Franklin Roosevelt reelected, is no Mark Hanna, but he does know the practical operations of a political machine. The sophisticated may jeer at him, the righteous denounce him, but ward bosses understand his language and appreciate his friendly slap on the back...
...Cyrus H. K. Curtis, his son-in-law Edward Bok, and Mr. & Mrs. George F. Tyler, who gave the $1,000,000 School of Fine Arts now headed by Sculptor Boris Blai. In 1929 Thomas D. Sullivan, president of Philadelphia's Terminal Warehouse Co. and brother of Pundit Mark Sullivan, left $278,000 towards a library. In 1934, with private benefactions dried up, President Beury turned to the PWA for $550,000 to complete the building...
From Vienna, where he had read of the Congressional appropriation financing U. S. Peace Commissioners for winding up the Spanish-American War, Mark Twain wisecracked in 1899: "At a public function in a European court all foreign representatives except ours wear clothes which in some way distinguish them. . . . But our representative appears in a plain black swallowtail. . . . It is found in all countries; it is as international as a nightshirt...