Word: palming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Under the soft glow of colored lights playing on bowers of palm and eucalyptus trees, a comfortable but by no means spectacular crowd of 25,000 began to see the fair sights in earnest. In the Palace of Science was many a 20th Century industrial gadget and the original gold spike with which Leland Stanford joined the Union Pacific and Central Pacific railroads in 1869. In the Ford Bowl was playing the San Diego Symphony, to be followed throughout the summer by orchestras from Portland, Seattle, San Francisco, Los Angeles and the 250-voiced Mormon Tabernacle Choir from Salt Lake...
...Museum of Emory University (Atlanta, Ga.). Curator Fattig, with the blessing of a university which owes most of its wealth to the late Coca-Cola Tycoon Asa Candler, hurried off to a courtroom in Birmingham, Ala. By the time he arrived, looking like a sunburned Julius Caesar in a Palm Beach suit, the case had been settled out of court. But Curator Fattig, determined to do his part, smiled proudly at the judge, crunched and swallowed 16 small pieces of glass...
Last week Batista's mulatto soldiers picked up Tony's hot trail. They found him at night in an old Spanish sea fort in the palm-spired valley of Matanzas, within sight of a yacht waiting to ferry him to Mexico. At dawn Tony knew that he was finished, began shooting as soon as the light came. Two companies of soldiers, sailors and marines took up safe positions and blazed interminably back. Toward nine Tony decided to make a break for shore and yacht. Covered by the machine gun fire of Senora O'Halloran, he took...
...American College of Physicians saluted a tidy-minded scholar by giving Professor Leo Loeb of Washington University Medical School (St. Louis) a gold medal during their annual meeting in Philadelphia last week. Small, frail, sombre, he rose from his seat to accept the medal, big as his palm, and in return to tell the College a simple chain of endocrine events which may lead to a simple cure for the ugly form of goitre called Graves's Disease. The thyroid may not be appreciably enlarged in a case of Graves's Disease. But in all cases the eyes...
...same time the Committee approved the following previously announced staff, recommended by Head Coach Richard C. Harlow, for the Varsity: Rae Crowther, line coach; Myron H. Palm, backfield coach; Wesley Fosler end coach...