Word: rigging
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...deep in the staterooms. When it had spread its stench and filth into the public rooms, a band of women got down on their knees, tried to scrub the floors. Passenger hero turned out to be Henry Treger. National Broadcasting Co. engineer, who climbed the stack to help re-rig the radio antenna. "I never expected to get down safely," he recalled. ''The wind fairly burned...
...Viscount Sankey. although ranking higher as Lord High Chancellor, is subject to removal with every change of Cabinet. Last week the long, lean Viscount sat toying with a rolled up copy of the bill and faintly smiling, while the short, fat Baron accused him broadly of a maneuver to rig the judiciary and more precisely of specific machinations to obstruct the seniority rights of Lord Justice Slesser ("Slosher"), a rabid Socialist...
This time it was fat Baron Hewart who wore a contemptuous, judicial smile, while lean Viscount Sankey, in defending the Government against charges of attempting to rig Justice, shouted, "Moonshine! Moonshine!! MOONSHINE...
...part of the last four years, not because of marital difficulties but because he was the man who brought in the first well in the second greatest oil pool in the world-the East Texas Field.* Dad Joiner has been at it since 1913. He yanked up his drilling rig 400 ft. short of oil under what later became another flush and fabulous pool, the Seminole. But he made a strike here & there, and by 1927 was drilling in East Texas in an area which geologists unanimously condemned as bone dry. On Oct. 4, 1930 he brought in a gusher...
...Aryanism in Germany, used the word with seemly caution. Born in Dessau in 1823 to a German poet and dissuaded from, attempting a musical career by Mendelssohn (his godfather), Max Muller studied Sanskrit, comparative philology, grew fond of metaphysics, went to Oxford in 1848 to supervise printing of his Rig-Veda translation, stayed in England the rest of his life, became a naturalized Briton, died at last, in the fullness of years and honors...