Word: mins
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First day's business, chiefly the admittance of young lawyers to practice before the Supreme bar, was concluded in 25 min. Then frosty-bearded Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes led his associates to the White House to notify the President that the watchdogs of the Constitution were back on guard. With mingled feelings of respect and speculation President Roosevelt ran his eye over them. Were they for him or against him? Would one or more retire soon? Even the eldest, 77-year-old Louis Dembitz Brandeis, seemed in the best of health and spirits...
...week's end he had encountered six drowned hulks, identified none as the Hussar. But Diver Hansen appraised as practically nil the chances of the rival Josephine, whose backers remained anonymous last week. Wearing ordinary diving-suits, the Josephine's divers worked only during slack tide, 20 min. twice...
Third Race. The course was 30 miles, 15 with the wind and 15 against it. Endeavour rounded the halfway mark with a 6½-min. lead. An unfortunate tack by Endeavour, a lucky puff of wind for Rainbow, enabled the Vanderbilt boat first to catch up with Endeavour then to perform the maneuver which yachtsmen call "back-winding." Air currents, forced backwards by Rainbow's sails, destroyed the vacuum on the front side of Endeavour's. Endeavour lost more ground by tacking again, trailed Rainbow across the line by 3 min...
Mary Shirley-to be Research Fellow in Child Hygiene at the School of Public Health for one year from October 1, 1934. A.B. Indian University. 1923; M.A. Univ. of Min 1925; Ph.D. Univ. of minn, 1927. 19027-29 Instructor in Psychology at the Institute of Child Welfare, Univ. of Minn.; 1929-32 Assistant Professor of Psychology; 1932-34 Research Fellow at the National Council of Parent Education of New York City...
...Min. Yes, I always like to meet my admirers. It gives one more of a sort of a what-shall-I-say, tsk, tsk, if you get what I mean...