Word: plumbed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither specific nor satisfactory, the Daily Herald's story was nevertheless a bold first attempt to plumb the mystery of what Governor Montagu Collet Norman of the Bank of England and Governor George Leslie Harrison of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York did differ about last November. Mr. Norman had joined Mr. Harrison on the S. S. Bremen at Southampton, seemingly to accompany him to New York. But when the Bremen reached Cherbourg the Governor of the Bank of England got off with his valet and his bags, rushed back to London, has not since been to Manhattan (TIME...
There is only one way out of the gravelike calm into which the Green and Gold ship has meandered. Abolish all dying activities form top to bottom for a semester or two. In the interim, put a student-factual-alumni committee to work to plumb the depths of student opinion, as revealed in comprehensive question-naires, and objective research into the values of certain activities from the standpoint of life-interest, as manifested by percentage of participation and measure of growth of participants in them. Let this committee make an exhaustive study of every field, and upon the basis...
...tenth jump Red Gold fell on his head and hurt himself fatally. Eric Atterbury, codesigner of the course, was thrown from Kilbairn and had concussion of the brain. They were more than half way round before Alligator, who had been running ninth, began to move ahead. Shrewd Charles Plumb Jr., a goodlooking young Long Island horse dealer, was up on Alligator for Mrs. Stevenson. He had been letting his rivals eliminate and trample each other. Alligator, slow but steady, surefooted, was second coming into the last turn. Wav.erly Star was two lengths in front. Waverly Star rose for a jump...
...ground. Then one horse got up and his man mounted him. It was Alligator and Plumb. Bally Yarn was second. Only other finisher among the 17 starters was Austin H. Niblack's Maitland...
...numbers were hearty and Elizabethan: a macabre portrayal of those plague-ridden times done with a winding sheet, and a rollicking trio of court dances. Then there was a choreographic exercise called "Plumb Line-a composition in line of the human form's law of balance," which, though curiously sinister, did not come off. Most startling and ingenious of the new numbers was "Narcissism," in which Miss Enters swaggered out on the state, gyrated to a wheezy phonograph, became convincingly drunken with self-love, was suddently moved fiercely to kiss her reflection in a mirror...