Word: saws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have the right of it when you call our taoiseach [Eamon de Valera] "teacherish" [TIME, Oct. 31]. Tis a true word surely. But where are your wits at all that you have been looking at pictures of him these 20 years and more and never saw that "turkey-necked" would be a truer one? And without codding doesn't the face of him look like a turkey...
...wife. He got up long enough to be sworn in as Michigan's 54th Governor, first Lieutenant Governor in the State's history to be promoted by death. His wife had her bed brought downstairs so she could watch the ceremony. Ailing Oldster Dickinson, who saw eye to eye with Frank Fitzgerald in many matters announced that he would "obviously"not be a candidate for re-election after filling out the remaining 21-month term...
Among the upperclassmen who joined the Yearlings yesterday were four players besides Torby who saw action in the 7 to 0 victory over Yale last November. Joe Gardella, backfield handyman, tackle Mose Hallett, guard Don Lowry, and newly converted center Bill Coleman formed the veteran quartet donning moleskins for the first time this spring...
...saw two alternatives for Germany's future: "Hitler may lie down and digest for a bit--he's sailed pretty close to the wind, you know ... or, what I'm most afraid of is that Germany may be like a man on a bicycle if he stops moving he'll have to jump off." Also, he said, the Nazis would face an intolerable situation if they have to "jump off" because of the difficulty in converting their nation from a wartime to a peacetime economy...
When Flagler donated the money in 1931 for the construction of a section of Widener to be devoted entirely to verse, he did so with the understanding that when the University saw fit to vacate the adjoining room, it would be added to the Poetry Room...