Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Thus was started one of the most publicized bets of the past decade-a golf marathon for half of a $30,000 plantation and $2,500 in side bets. Only stipulations were that Golfer Ferebee must 1) make good his boast between dawn and dusk; 2) get 95 or less for each of the eight rounds...
...designing beautiful clothes for women is no longer exclusive with a dozen dressmakers in Paris. During the past year U. S. designers have been well publicized, and a notion has got abroad that Paris is losing initiative in setting fashions. Downright U. S. citizens who rather hoped so were thoroughly disabused last week when U. S. buyers and wholesalers flocked into Paris like homing birds for Fashion's greatest circus : the annual autumn openings of the great couturiers...
...trends showed through Director Williams' report last week: NYA begins to think public works relief more important than academic relief; employers scouting schools and colleges have begun to ask for NYA students. But the big news of last week's birthday was that the child seemed virtually past danger from economic undernourishment or political...
Whether Author Gogarty is only temporarily holding himself in, or really means to start living down the legends of his past, I Follow Saint Patrick is, for him, a strangely subdued and pious piece of writing. Of Gogarty the "wit, poet, mocker, enthusiast" and original of bawdy Buck Mulligan in Joyce's Ulysses, the poet is about all that remains. As hagiographer of Ireland's patron saint, Gogarty writes as one on holy ground, and it has taken most of the Elizabethan starch...
Last week there was confusion about the future and present, but none about the past. With a few meaty exceptions, semiannual statements showed that the U. S. had been buffeted indeed by Depression II. Samples...