Word: pavements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Helmeted and handsome, a London policeman incautiously pauses before a hedge, groans, contorts his face, sinks lifeless to the pavement Europe's most accomplished cracksman, dinner jacketed, cool, emerges from a casement window, catches sight of the officer still weltering bloodily on the hedge, hurries away, slightly ruffied by the event. Scotland Yard at last has a clew; if they find the cracksman who stole the $256,000 dollar diamond, they feel certain they will have the maniac swordsman who stuck the policeman from behind the hedge, who had killed four other police in almost as many nights...
...blizzard, however, benefited some dozen students who earned some money shovelling snow. Cambridge residents, through the medium of the Student Employment Office, engaged men of the University to clear the pavement about their homes. The number of men given work of this nature by the Employment Office was limited, in order that each student might receive a worthwhile...
Occupants of rooms surrounding Dunster House courtyard were startled last night about 9 o'clock when a burning sofa hurtled from a fourth floor window in F entry onto the pavement beneath. For fifteen minutes its flames flared up from the court casting an unholy glare over the usually tranquil House and illuminating the efforts of the brave Cambridge fire ladies in their struggle against the fiercest of the elements...
...call for "the tallest building in the world," which is what Comrade Stalin wants. Pointing proudly last week to the new design, by Comrades Shchuko and Yofan, Stalin told Duranty that work on the Palace of Soviets will start next spring, that it will tower 1,312 ft. from pavement to the top of a Statue of Lenin which will be nearly three times as big as the Statue of Liberty.f...
...Through sleet and along roads as slick as glass, he first drove to the Naval Hospital. There he found Secretary Ickes propped up in bed attended by a skeleton staff from the Interior Department, trying his best to disregard a fractured rib sustained when he fell on an icy pavement. Oil Administrator, Public Works Administrator, a holder of five extra-cabinet jobs, Mr. Ickes knows that he and Secretary Wallace are the two men on whom the President depends most. It had taken much bullying from tall Mrs. Ickes, Illinois legislator, to pack him off to the hospital when...