Word: plucks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have any of the 30 cases of quintuplets reliably reported during the past five centuries lived long after birth. Longest lived, before the Dionne sisters hung up a new record, were those of a woman of Mayfield, Ky. After 4 days, 17 hr. Death began to pluck them...
...paid decent salaries, 3,500,000 children can go back to school and 300,000 families can move out of depressing hovels into sanitary, sun-lit homes." His remedy for crime: education. "While we are striving to deal with one gangster, a thousand criminals are in the making. We pluck leaves from the tree of crime when we should put an axe to the root...
...favorite Botticellis and Rembrandts. On the fourth day the body was taken to the Kahn estate at Cold Spring Harbor, L. I. where for 14 summers Otto Kahn had walked the wide lawns in front of the French house, stepped down the stone terrace into the flower garden to pluck the tearoses he liked to wear in his lapel. The funeral was private. In death as in life he remained true to the Jewish faith. Rabbi Samuel H. Goldenson of Temple Emanu-El read the services. Before sundown the body was lowered into its grave in the family plot...
From his first major defeat the President could pluck a few bits of comfort. The waterway project split the ranks of both parties, and votes were determined mainly by sectional issues. Said Funnyman Will Rogers: "Every Senator voted against it if it didn't run by his house." Although he had pressed firmly for the treaty's ratification the President did not at the last moment roll up his sleeves and try to whip reluctant Senators into line. Even Leader Robinson made no stirring final appeal. Because it has more important measures to ram through, the Administration refrained...
Walter Dorwin Teague has, besides Steuben, Eastman Kodak, Taylor Instrument, National Radiator, A. B. Dick among his clients. An apostle of functionalism in design, Mr. Teague abhors in manner as well as theory esoteric aspects of art. Explained he last week: "The industrial designer . . . does not pluck his designs out of the air, or out of his own soul. His designs are always latent in the things he deals with. . . . He asks himself, what is this thing for? What is it supposed to do? What is it made of? How is it made? . . . If he is a good designer...