Word: sacs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chance in 658,503 (87 cubed) that quadruplets would be born, last week happened to Mrs. Lawrence R. Wycoff, 30, of Sac City, Iowa. Promptly she named the three girls and a boy Lavern Darlene, Lavonne Darene. Lorraine Delaine and Lester Dean, hoped they would all grow up to rival Mary, Mona, Leota and Roberta Keys. 19. of Hollis. Okla.. famed because they reputedly are the only quadruplets ever to reach maturity. "The Bunch of Keys" graduated from high school last year, have just come home from Baylor University at Waco...
...baking, burning an area from Wisconsin to New Mexico, from Illinois to Montana. Up soared thermometers in Bartlesville, Okla. (101°), Bismarck. N. Dak. (102°), Manhattan, Kans. (103°), St. Joseph, Mo. (104º St. Paul, Minn. (105°), Huron, S. Dak. (106°), Morris, Ill. (107°), Sac City, Ia. (108°). Peat bog fires ate their way into the city limits of Milwaukee, while townsfolk panted in an all-time high temperature of 103°. At 102°, Chicago missed by less than a degree its all-time top torridity. Flushed and groggy, schoolchildren were sent home...
...Detroit, Dr. Roy Donaldson McClure, who operated last fortnight on Henry Ford, marveled at his patient's youth and recuperative powers; revealed he was out of bed for a few moments the day following his operation; said his malady (gangrenous appendix strangulated in the hernial sac) was the first of its kind among 191,000 Henry Ford Hospital patients, one of 20 in medical history. Patient Ford sat up; invited newsmen in; announced for next year "something really new in automobiles"; denied he would sell Ford stock to the public or retire...
There are a number of places about the University which might well be given a function in the local microcosm as parking lots, without interfering with traffic, or causing any other nuisance. The cul-de-sac which runs past McKinlock and Gore Halls could be used for overnight parking without difficulty if the police would promise immunity to those who use it. There is a great deal of empty space behind the Business School rather forlornly awaiting another period of prosperity, some already employed as a parking space, and the rest just begging for the expenditure of a few dollars...
...studied sculpture under James Eraser and took a course at Manhattan's Art Students' League. In 1907 she set up a studio at the end of MacDougal Alley next to that of Daniel Chester French. MacDougal Alley is a cement-paved cul de sac in Greenwich Village, lined with little brick houses that once were the stables for the great houses on Washington Square. Mrs. Whitney certainly did not invent Greenwich Village as the centre of New York's art life, but her coming there attracted public attention to it. From the first her studio...