Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Barber's car was stopped by thugs with machine guns. As his frightened wife looked on from a car behind, Factor & friend were spirited away in the gangsters' automobile. The friend was dumped out not long after. Until in the Lindbergh case they historically overstepped the mark, the nation's kidnappers had for the most part confined themselves to snatching each other. Ransom was paid, the victim released and nobody, including the police, was much the wiser. Jake the Barber was one of the few underworldlings left with appreciable means. He has peddled spurious stocks...
...track captain-elect, proved to be not the best mile race of the year but the greatest of all time. The British team was already on its way to a final 4-to-8 defeat when Bonthron Lovelock, John Hazen (Cornell) and Forbes Horan (Cambridge) went to the mark. For a week Bonthron, a junior from Detroit, winner of this year's intercollegiate 1,500-metre event, and Lovelock, a slim New Zealander from Dunedin where he ran three years for Otago University, had been sizing each other up. As a medical student, Jack Lovelock did not fail...
Political blundering, with no fine poetry to speak for its defence, he found an easy mark; yet he derived no satisfaction from the support which the modern debacle gave to his doctrines. He fought in a desperate cause; indeed, in President Lowell's phrase "with the courage to proclaim unpopular opinions in troubled times." The heroic tenacity he showed in his life, as in his convictions, gave him strength to rise daily from his sick-bed to lecture throughout the last eight months, nor did he let his illness impair his amazing tolerance and accessibility. Now that death has swept...
Proceeding to Charlestown the party will go through the Charlestown Navy Yard and after a short ride will arrive at Breeds Hill where the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought. Tablets mark the important points of the battle and an opportunity is given to those who wish to climb Bunker Hill Monument which affords an excellent view of Boston...
...Texan who went to Manhattan from Waco at 14, President Lewine was a happy man. Not only did last week's opening mark the completion of plans on which he and his friends have worked for years, but, more important, his Commodity Exchange, with its 1,031 members, was being auspiciously launched upon a rising tide of prices which promised to lead on to fortune. Seats on the Commodity Exchange, which for the merger of the old Rubber, Silk, Hides and Metals Exchanges, were valued at $900. have shot...