Word: patch
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Fiume, Italy, Vacationist Zorca Prince opened a letter from her mother, laughed at what she read, plunged into the sea. Her mother had dreamed that if Zorca went swimming a shark would kill her. Far offshore fishermen heard a scream, found a little patch of blood-stained water but no trace of Vacationist Zorca Prince...
...York national guardsmen to the Mexican border, two years later went to France at the head of the 27th Division. He served with distinction, was the only militiaman to retain his command of a division throughout the War. His men selected for their divisional insignia a starry arm-patch supposed to represent the constellation Orion. Back home General O'Ryan returned to the law, took up commercial aviation, was boosted last year for Fusion Mayor of New York. As a reward for withdrawing his candidacy. Fusion Mayor LaGuardia made him the Biggest City's biggest policeman...
...matters?Sex and Fairy Tales? Dr. Adams sharply disagrees with "advanced" psychologists. A child, she says, is inquisitive, gullible but not equipped to understand scientific facts. It does not matter whether the parent attributes babies to God, a mother or a cabbage patch. Let the parent be casual, unselfconscious and not worry if the child refuses to believe what he is told or quickly forgets or misunderstands. Likewise Dr. Adams says fairy tales do no harm because the child's world is an arbitrary one, "a definite period of living which has its own characteristic prejudices and predilections...
...means chiefly a 100,000-acre patch of sandy land in East Texas where geologists, oil promoters, wild-cat speculators rushed by the thousands in October 1930 to plant a forest of derricks almost overnight. Despite everything the Federal Government could do to curb its lawless elements, East Texas has persistently produced more than its Federal quota. In that hottest spot on the oil map, "hot oil" has been a fighting word for years. Last week, the Texas Railroad Commission was still impotent to stop "hot oil." This week the State of Texas, led by Governor Miriam ("Ma") Ferguson, will...
...have lost confidence in Judge Sullivan," said a union leader. Thus the strike began. Last week two Federal mediators were trying to patch up the dispute. Chief danger was that the livestock handlers might persuade the Amalgamated Meat Cutters & Butcher Workmen to strike in sympathy, thus closing the huge packing houses and threatening a meat famine...