Word: saws
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...whole thing is a joke," said Mr. Wheeler, when he got back to Buffalo; and he went on to state that although he saw no one "staggering drunk", several "were a little wobbly." As if this slur on the quality of Ontario's four per cent beer were not enough, he even characterized it as "slops...
This is all highly gratifying. We had feared out this way that the eastern fountains of learning were drying up. We had harbored the suspicion that youth in the east was, if not dead, at least pale and specter-thin. We saw decadence where once had been virility. We remembered recent intersectional games and we thought that down east they had too much blue blood and not enough...
When the Reserve in Manhattan last raised its rates, most bankers saw higher money rates in the offing. Now, however, the bond and stock markets have proved unexpectedly strong, apparently in anticipation of easy money conditions...
Pretty rabid talk, isn't it ? You would see red, too, if you had seen all your savings melt away because you owned an equity in an Iowa farm when financiers saw fit to de press and deflate. The hell of it is that thousands of farmers in this state and others saw the same thing, and who got the money? Tell us who got the money...
Captain Clauzat of the French Army Air Service holds the world's altitude record with a 250 kilogram load carried to 30,406 ft. Trying to beat his own record at Dijon, last week, he saw flames bursting from the motor. Prompt work with the fire extinguisher apparently stopped the fire. In a hurried descent he found himself "pancaking" upon Liegard Woods. Still 100 ft. or more from the ground, Captain Clauzat undid his belt, and a moment later jumped 15 ft. into the branches of a tree. He alighted without so much as a scratch, but saw with...