Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Sirs: Yesterday in reading Marion Star of Ohio, I saw an interesting article about the late President Harding & Mr. Crissinger copied from TIME, a magazine of Washington, D. C.* I would like copy & price of Sept. 26, also the price of a year of TIME. I. W. LAYERS...
...President Coolidge finished on a note especially pitched for Pittsburgh. "There are still some," he said, "who sit apart, who do not see,, who cannot understand. To them our industrial life is the apotheosis of selfishness. They cannot realize that the rattle of the reaper, the buzz of the saw, the clang of the anvil, the roar of traffic are all part of a mighty symphony, not only of material but of spiritual progress. Out of them the nation is supporting its religious institutions, endowing its colleges, providing its charities, furnishing adornments of architecture, rearing its monuments, organizing its orchestras...
...Last week the Paris, big transatlantic steamer of the French Line, was churning softly down the harbor to the sea. Captain Yves Thomas steered past a line of wooden barges, humped like haymows on the water; wheeled his great ship to pass a steamer. AH he rounded it, he saw the lights of a Norwegian freighter, the Beesengen, riding at anchor. It was too late to swing the bow, too late to reverse his course. Shrill bells and whistles sounded as the bow of the Paris drove into the side of the dingy ship...
...when he had lived in Vienna, ridden through misted bridle paths with noblemen in red coats and silver spurs, painted Lippiza and Kladrub, horses of the Emperor Franz Josef. Then Expert Vischer looked at some of the paintings. Always admired first by horsemen, then by artists who saw the anatomical precision, the speed and effort of the running horses, the Academician composition and texture of his work, Artist Koch was rediscovered by the World's polo expert, whose article was printed at the head of the art section. Ignorant skeptics were convinced when they went to look...
...contest was a see--saw affair throughout, the Juniors having the weight on their side, and Boston Latin co-ordination and experience...