Word: pillars
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hardy, 209-pound Junior tackle in his first year of University football, whose location in the left tackle berth has made the Harvard wall a hard one to penetrate. Offensively and defensively, this lineman is a pillar of strength for Harvard...
Voice of Labor. When President Green, Labor's diplomat, a pillar of Baptist conservatism, addressed the convention, Labor's hackles were indeed rising. In a preliminary meeting the Voice of Labor had assumed a surprisingly threatening tone: "Some of us have been wondering whether the present industrial order is to be a success or a failure. No social order is secure where wealth flows at such a rate into the hands of the few away from the many. . . . We will be in favor of having the United States Government take it away through taxation and distribute...
...world's banking gold, was uneasy, extra prudent. By French Government decree any security which lost 10% of its quoted value in a single day was suspended for that day from trading on the Paris bourse. Warned bourgeoise La Liberte in allusion to the pound: "A pillar of civilization has fallen, and it is Socialism that has brought it down." "Just As Much Integrity." Englishmen whistled up their courage. Much was made in the City of the "conspicuously successful," the "very satisfactory" reopening last week of London's 'Change. Prior to this experiment Exchange authorities quietly encouraged...
...last week a strange automobile whirled up to the steps of the Kurski railroad station. Two dark little men jumped out and ran into the ticket office, first depositing a very large, very neat bundle on the top step. Some sneak thieves were waiting in the shadow of a pillar for just such an opportunity. Quick as a flash they pounced on the package, carried it off to an empty corner of the yards. To the horror of the sneak thieves, the package did not contain food, clothes, or boots, as they hoped, but the strangled body of Professor Ivantsov...
...asbestos suits got close enough to the bore to make preparations for a nitroglycerine blast. M. M. Kinley and his brother Harry, famed wild well tamers, came from Oklahoma to begin that hazardous undertaking which is calculated to blow out the fuel supply long enough to extinguish the towering pillar of fire...