Word: roses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...city went through a two-day nightmare, in which rail, telephone and mail service broke down almost completely. For one afternoon the city's means of communication with the outside world was by radio, which was swamped with more messages than it could handle. At Pasadena the Rose Bowl was threatened when a torrential overflow from Devil's Gate Dam was turned aside with sandbags. Sixty miles north of the city a sudden landslide crashed on and nearly buried a bus whose 26 passengers amazingly escaped injury. At Glendale, floodwaters and mud wrecked a $1,000,000 Government...
...eleven, he earned his own living playing in dance bands, cafés and cinema orchestras. A diligent student, he spent his spare time plowing through courses at the Frankfurt Conservatory, studying violin, viola and composition. In 1915 he became head violinist of the Frankfurt Opera House, rose to the post of conductor. Among German composers his pre-Hitler reputation was second only to that of aging Richard Strauss...
...evening from San Francisco to Winslow, Ariz. It turned south to Los Angeles when it encountered the rains that later washed out over 5,500 homes, 200 lives (see p. 16). On course and on time the big 18,560-lb. ship droned over Fresno, rose to 10,000 ft. to top rugged Tehachapi Mts. Ice began forming on the plane's wings. So about 8:30 p. m. Pilot John Dunbar Graves, 35, a million-mile veteran, turned back, and apparently flew straight into the swirling heart of the storm. An hour later the plane was seen...
...already dominated some public-school systems, pointed as an example to New Haven, Conn., where two public schools are staffed by nuns.* Eight hundred adherents of the left-wing "Social Frontier" group demanded that Federal aid be restricted to public schools. Before the Association's legislative committee, up rose conservative, heavy-jowled Dr. George Drayton Strayer, of Columbia University's Teachers College, to cry: "Let's not have any church- Catholic, Protestant or Jewish-using public money to make propaganda for any policy or belief peculiar to itself. . . . Keep the public schools public." From New York University...
...lone woman stockholder rose to suggest that Mr. Roosevelt should be set right...