Word: seatful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Athletic Sports, will sell a ticket priced at $8.80, and another priced at $5.50. There will be a saving of $3.30 for subscribers to the $8.80 ticket, while $1.65 will be saved by the purchase of the $5.50 book. Those who buy these tickets will be entitled to seat at the following games: Springfield, October 2; Brown, October 9; Dartmouth, October 23; Army, November 6, and Davidson, November...
...waters of the Pacific rolled blue and calm one day last week as a gunner aboard the U. S. S. Wyoming, engaged in war games off San Clemente Island, took his ramrod to seat a shell in the breech of a 5-in. gun which was participating in a barrage to cover a landing party of Marines. The gunner's thrust was his last. As he shoved home the shell, up with a roar went the breech in a great red flare of flame and blood against the blue. "I saw one boy sort of drift past me," recounted...
...still far from settled. As a disturber of U. S. peace, the Sit-Down Strike had just begun to fight. In Detroit alone, eight small factories were held by a total of 2,600 sit-downers, mostly women. President Walter Fry of Detroit's Fry Products Inc. (automobile seat covers) thought up a new twist when he sat down with his 150 sitting employes, ordered dinner for the crowd, promised to sit it out with the best of them. "If they won't work. I won't, and unless I work and sell, they...
...years as an advocate of constructive government and as a bitter critic of ex-Governor Curley. After graduating from law school and serving in France as a Captain in the army, he opened a law practice in Boston, became a city councilman in Boston and then won a seat in the statehouse...
...brave enough" to see herself on the screen, Viennese Cinemactress Elisabeth Bergner fidgeted in an office at the London Pavilion while Queen Mary viewed her latest film. Dreaming Lips, crept to her seat in time to be presented as the performance ended...