Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Body of the House. As head of the House, Speaker Byrns is discomfited only by the fact that he is expected to rule that body. At White House conferences he is often urged by Vice President Garner to use his power, to make "the boys" toe the mark, but there is not even a rambunctious Congressman whom Speaker Byrns has it in his heart to offend by being sternly autocratic. "We'll take care of that all right," he says pacifically. "Don't worry about that...
Dunster, with Eliot, draws most of the graduates of exclusive private schools like Groton, St. Mark's, St. Paul's, Milton. Its atmosphere is that of a gentleman's club, fairly democratic within itself...
When, as it must to all men, Death comes to the eleventh Pius in the Vatican, an interregnum will ensue before the College of Cardinals gather in the Sistine Chapel to mark ballot after ballot in electing the 262nd Pope. Before 1922 that interregnum amounted to only ten days- a fact which highly vexed Boston's William Henry Cardinal O'Connell who arrived in the Vatican too late to help choose Pius XI. One of the new Pope's first official acts was to extend the period to 18 days. Thus before the next conclave there should...
Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), a great U. S. artist even today, was represented by six canvases in the Whitney show. Best of the lot was his picture of the Biglen brothers, famed oarsmen of the 1870's, pulling their double shell around a mark in a race. Eakins' particular passion was having his models pose in exactly the same attitude from day to day. He used to make them stand against a background marked out with squared lines with colored ribbons attached at the exact point where head, elbow, knee, etc. were supposed to be. Prizefights were...
Shattering two world records in the 440-yard and 1500-meter free style events and setting a N.C.A.A. mark in the 220, Jack Medica of the University of Washington featured the twelfth annual championships of the National Collegiate Athletic Association held on March 29 and 30 at the Harvard pool...