Word: saws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...there was always room for one more. There is always room for one more†ones who have no room elsewhere." Mother MacArthur clinched her argument by saying she would gladly adopt a child sight unseen,† if assured it was not mentally defective. Said she poignantly: "I never saw my own child until he was placed in my arms after he was delivered...
...hrer flew 162 warplanes in formation. Before him passed in review for four hours the flower of his Army, some 40,000 men in full fighting regalia. With them passed the grimmest, most impressive war machines that Nazi Germany could muster-tanks, artillery, armored cars. Interested foreign military attaches saw little new equipment, but the representatives of small, trembling States could scarcely fail to be impressed...
Those who saw action for Harvard were: Hanford and Riecken at goal; Livingston and Behr, point; Wilcox and Behr, coverpoint; Blotner, Gilbert, and Benedix, first defense; Ferris, Edmunds, Tonner, and Blotner, second defense; Willard and Doughty, center; Downey, Bird, Downs, Blanchard, second attack; Anderson and Riecken, first attack; Zouck and Ieradi, out home; and Hammond, Halstead, Stein, in home...
...Banker Wasserman engaged in a conversation that last week proved highly interesting to the U. S. According to Mr. Wasserman, Sir Horace told him that at the outbreak of war the British Government would take over all the U. S. securities held by its nationals, use them as it saw fit. The Philadelphian discussed with Sir Horace the advantage of having them taken over at a "fair price" by some such U. S. agency as RFC, left the matter there...
...notes the pine tree growing in granite near Buford, Wyo.-in the early days of the Union Pacific, railroad firemen saw the struggling tree, kept it alive by emptying buckets of water on it as the trains passed. It retells the story of Hugh Glass, angriest man in U. S. history, who got so mad when his companions left him for dead that he chased them through 1,500 miles of wilderness to get even. Mauled by a grizzly, Glass was abandoned in South Dakota, crawled 100 miles to the nearest fort, set out for Montana for revenge before...