Word: rest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...example, last year at the end of the Yale race at New London an oarsman suddenly slumped over in his seat. He was operating under an old psychological reflex which required that after he had rowed a certain definite time he should stop and rest...
Coach Dick Harlow gave all of the men who played a part in halting the Cadel assault Saturday (with the exception of George Downing and Hank Vander Eb) a well earned rest yesterday afternoon. No read injuries were reported after the team's first major win, although Club Peabody got a hard crack on his side and Joe Gardella needs a good rest from gridiron warfare...
...State of New Jersey the railroad owed $11,651,000 of taxes unpaid since 1932. That was 40% of its tax bill for that period. It had paid the rest. Month ago the State threatened to go to court to collect its bill for 1932-1933 ($7,230,000 of taxes, penalties & interest). With only $2,360,000 cash on hand to meet the tax bill, Jersey Central escaped to the courts...
...record. Six years later only 60% of its business was left and the electric refrigerator had doubled its sales. Then, in 1935, paunchy Robert Carl Suhr, president of 24-State, $44,000,000 City Ice & Fuel Co., was less scared than most icemen. He had jumped the rest of the industry five years, had brought his company out of the drippy-wagon, pickerel-pond stage, had $25,710,324 sales and $2,972,997 net income. By the end of 1935, other icemen put Suhr at the head of newly organized National Ice Advertising, Inc., to see what could...
...Banker" urged Nancy to hasten, lest inflation raise the cost of the tower. Alarmed, Nancy's donors redoubled their efforts. By last month she had raised $27,700, still needed around $20,000 more. One morning "Banker" came in person to her office, offered to lend her the rest without interest...