Word: papered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Aboard the Deutschland the 591 passengers, jarred by an explosion that rippled the floor of the D deck dining room, danced, watched a cinema show, slept while the crew fought ten hours to quell the fire in the cellulose, paper and Christmas-toy cargo. Only casualties were fire fighters who got a taste of smoke; safe in the after hold were 46 tanks of Australian fighting fish, 5,000 Harz Mountain canaries...
...friend of "Reds" in his campaign for reelection, most of the newspapers have frankly slanted news and headlines to favor his youthful, gladhanding, Republican opponent, Harold E. Stassen. (A notable exception: the Cowles-owned Minneapolis Star.) The angry Governor did not help matters by declaring that every daily paper in the State was a liar except the Willmar (Kandiyohi County) Tribune (circulation: 4,562). Ordinary newshawks took this as a slur at their bosses rather than themselves, gratefully remembered that friendly Elmer Benson as a U. S. Senator had given them interviews even while he was taking a bath...
Saltonstall stooped to pick up an evening paper, paid the newsboy, and pointed to the headline, "Dr. Townsend Endorses Saltonstall...
Also on the paper at this time was the present Democratic Senator from Ohio, Robert J. Bulkley '02, who is now running for re-election against Robert A. Taft, a graduate of the Law School...
...Princeton; even Mikkola is pretty confident--"if they'll all just click," he says. Yale and Princeton are good, for the Elis have been winning consistently, and the Tigers, while losing to the strong Army and Navy teams, are a potentially powerful group. But Harvard is different. On paper, from last year's records, the Crimson should be weak. Their undefeated record shows how Jaako has built that team...