Word: pots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Earl and Countess of Athlone probably will not have time to take pot luck with the citizens at the New York municipal handout stations, but that is just as well, as it might tend to give them an incorrect impression of life in the United States...
...chief charms of the story; in consequence, he approaches the truth about the trio more nearly than anyone has to date, and at least as nearly as anyone ever will. He does not fail to show Bonfils in his worst lights: he reveals him as a crack-pot miser, who hides behind the ticket booth at his circus so that he will not have to admit his own daughter free; he shows the reader a stupid man, a crooked man, a bully, and a sorry figure. But the other side of the picture is between the covers: Bon blazes...
...James Rowland Angell at which, "an official Yale spokesman" predicted, the new coach would be named. The failure of the prophecy to come true caused more banner headlines: YALE STILL UNDECIDED ABOUT FOOTBALL COACH. This news was important enough to last for two days. Then sportswriters tossed into the pot the names of seven more coaches in addition to Kipke who might be hired by Yale. To the Associated Press, Michigan's assistant Athletic Director Franklin C. Cappon denied that he planned to transfer to Yale. In Iowa City Coach Ossie Solem of Iowa denied the same thing...
...corporation up in business and get their deposits up to $2,500 guaranteed for six months. Their total contribution was estimated at $90,000.000 to $100,000,000 and they became liable to be assessed an equal amount later. The U. S. contributed $150,000,000 to the pot; the Federal Reserve Banks $131,000,000. Because banks, for the temporary guarantee, are assessed only on the portion of their deposits insured,* the big banks with big accounts in many cases paid less into the guarantee fund than small banks with small accounts. Not all banks announced the amount paid...
...first year in high school Fisher wrote a novel, had sense enough to burn it. At Chicago one of his instructors, Professor-Novelist Robert Herrick, advised him to eschew literary ambitions, told him he would never "write a novel worth opening." Fisher made better sense when, after boiling the pot by teaching English for several years at Utah and New York Universities, he went back to Idaho to write. His first novel, Totters of the Hills, got a good press, few sales. When his tetralogy began to appear no Eastern publisher would touch it. Idaho's Caxton Printers...