Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That Camille Chautemps should today be Premier of France once more proves the old Paris saw that nothing can kill a statesman's career in this interesting country.* Lawyer Chautemps was politically assassinated, so it seemed, by purported revelations and much seeming evidence linking him with French Public Scandal No. 1-I'Affaire Stavisky (TiME, Jan. 15, 1934, et seq.). Diving into complete retirement for six months, M. Chautemps, when he cautiously emerged, found many people thought the Stavisky Scandal had been so overdone that they actually regarded him as a martyr to evil tongues. Suave, tactful...
...Delaware clan had previously been based on his stable of steeplechasers, decided to open a race track of his own. Last week the new track, Delaware's first since the State Legislature legalized betting in 1935,* opened. In the feature race of opening day, some 20,000 spectators saw Mrs. C. Oliver Iselin's Strabo nose out John Hay Whitney's Flying Scott...
...lived along the rugged coastal mountains reached only by difficult trails. Riding through this virgin terrain. Dr. Roberts grew to love its scrawny cypress, bosky gorges,, tall redwoods, dreamed of a scenic highway. Last week after 20 years of battling legislative opponents and tough engineering problems, Dr. Roberts finally saw his highway opened, a 139-mi. oiled string twined around the long fingers of the coastal mountains. The road reaches from arty Carmel-by-the-Sea down to William Randolph Hearst's huge San Simeon ranch and San Luis Obispo, opens up a whole unspoiled section to motorists...
...pull him from the grip of the electricity. The 75,000 volts knocked her across the room. She staggered back for another tug. The man thought he shook his head to warn her away. But his muscles were too tense to do that. Mrs. Fusco saw only his popping eyes, grabbed again, was again knocked away...
...years ago in Kansas, in which a greater number of important meteorite finds have been made than in any other U. S. State. He started his scientific career, however, as a biologist. One night in 1923, while he was a biology professor at McPherson College in Kansas, he saw a shooting star so bright that he was sure some of it must have reached earth. The idea so excited him that he chucked biology for star-chasing forthwith...