Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sent his QRT "Clear the air!'' Then CQ "Attention, please!" Then "All stations please stand by!" Meanwhile the operator in a little stucco Radio Marine Station at Tuckerton, N. J. had relayed a query from a ship in the Morro Castle's neighborhood: "Was a nearby ship afire?" A pillar of flame could be seen. But it was not until 3:25 that Alagna could fight his way back through the flames with authority from Captain Warms, desperate on the bridge, to send out the dread SOS. "Di-di-di-da-da-da-di-di-di! The flames are under...
...Vagabond idled over the rail of bridge, concealed from the vulgar gaze by the gathering dusk and by the bulky base of the great salt-shaker pillar. The subway trains, momentarily elevated, flashed by, each square of light framing the back of a head, a neck and a pair of shoulders. Twelve minutes from the South Station, said the Rollo Book, in the misty past when the Vagabond made his first trip to Cambridge. As inaccurate as the catalogue estimates of laboratory hours. Twelve minutes to find the subway steps from the train concourse and twelve more underground totalled twenty...
Last week President Roosevelt had to consider the appointment of a new head to a great Democratic institution. When Carter Glass and the new dealers of 20 years ago created the Federal Reserve System they meant it to be a pillar of sound finance which could not be shaken by the hand of politics or business, which should stand even if the economic sky should fall. What they did not foresee was that, after the economic sky had fallen, a new generation of New Dealers would want not a pillar of stone but a handy wand with which to reconstruct...
...Ministers' Cantors' Association. A resolution was passed to boycott guilty synagogs. Cantor Martin Adolf of Paterson, N. J., chairman of the conference, declared that cantors are Forgotten Men. Said he: "The cantor, who by the grace of God is an artist, has always been considered as the pillar of fire in the synagog. He has the ability with the rays of his voice to create light and joy when Israel is left in darkness. . . . When the whole world was engaged in speculation to gain more wealth, the cantor was content with the necessaries of life. When the whole...
...imminent. (Advertisement courtesy of the National Students League.) In a chaos of Hate and Strife we find ourselves, swept along by irresistible currents, pursued by a thousand enemies, unable to save ourselves by uttering a long quavering squeal the way Tarzan does when he and Jane get chased from pillar to post by his jungle pals. What, then, shall we do? Shall we put our trust in Roosevelt the Righteous, paint ourselves blue and sing 'NRA, my God to Thee, a Gentleman's Marks Are CCC, ERA, ERA, CWA!' Shall we be Nazi men with Hitler, or start Lenin toward...