Word: oval
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Amarendra was standing in the Calcutta railway station. "A short, black man with an oval face brushed against him," his aged aunt recounted last week from the witness stand in the Calcutta court. Amarendra felt a hypodermic needle pierce his arm. Before the sting had died away, Benoyendra dashed up and massaged the arm. Amarendra quickly developed a high fever, his arm pits and groins swelled, his face puffed, his tongue blackened, and he died, Calcutta's first victim of bubonic plague in five years...
...taking office. But to most listeners his speech was his first heart-to-heart with the country at large since last October when, hopeful of price-upping, he started RFC on its fruitless gold-buying campaign (TIME. Oct. 30). What the President had to say last week from his oval study was in the nature of a review of the winter's work and a cheery farewell on the eve of his Pacific vacation. His smooth round voice was as vibrant as ever with self-confidence and good hope. He asked resounding rhetorical questions to which the answers...
...city which once rivaled Detroit as an automobile manufacturing centre. Last week a crowd of 135,000 was sitting in the unroofed stands when the 33 cars, after gathering speed for a lap, rolled past the starter in groups of three. Around the 2½-mile brick oval with an unsteady, insistent roar, sidling awkwardly at the turns, straightening out for speed on the straightaways, whirled the bright-hued machines hardly bigger than toy-store cars. After 30 miles George Bailey of Detroit ran his Scott Special into the outer retaining wall, bounced over to the ground. A broken wrist...
...Show, the 58th staged by the Westminster Kennel Club. Boxed by a low red fence, the big oblong carpet in the centre of Manhattan's Madison Square Garden was its usual faded green. The 8,000 spectators wedged tight around the fence and tiered in the great oval galleries for the final night's judging last week were a somber mass. But under the arc lights glaring from the ceiling the six dogs which stood at smart attention waiting for Dr. Henry Jarrett of Philadelphia to name one of them best in the U. S. were clad mostly...
...second offer to resign his post. Near Tucson, Ariz., where none but his immediate family was admitted to his bedside, Mr. Woodin's throat ailment (reputedly cancer) had not sufficiently improved, he thought, to warrant a continuation of his leave of absence. In the White House Oval Room, where he had been sworn in as Undersecretary of the Treasury in November, Henry Morgenthau Jr., 42, was made a full-fledged Secretary of the Treasury in the presence of the Roosevelt and Morgenthau families...