Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Salt was rubbed into Hanfstaengl's wounds nearly a year later, when form letter appealing for contributions to a National Scholarship fund was inadvertently sent out to him. Not sure that the didn't mean that Harvard had changed its mind about accepting his offer, Hanfstaengl wrote back offering to raise his offer to $10,000, to provide for the traveling fellowships for a period of ten years...
...tuning in station WIXFW at 7:30 o'clock in the morning, a radio fan may catch the signals sent down to earth by the radiosonde. Because upper air conditions are vital to air pilots, the Observatory has been getting help from the International Ice Patrol, the United States Weather Bureau, M. I. T., the Navy, and the Canadian, British, French, and Danish governments...
...great secrecy the pagoda and throne, (together valued at $3,000,000) were spirited out of China by coolie cart, mule train, river junk and railroad, across Siberia and thence to The Netherlands, where they were stored in the Amsterdam Municipal Museum. Thence, recently, Museum Director Fritz Loew-Beer sent them to the U. S. Mrs. Theodore Roosevelt Jr. wanted the pagoda and throne for an exhibition of Chinese treasures in Manhattan, to raise money for the War Orphans Fund of her good friend Mme Chiang Kaishek...
...however, is the new policy an accomplished fact. Last June, a similar program was under consideration, but there came a sudden business flurry and Franklin Roosevelt sent the idea back to the dead file. Provided the stockmarket does not turn up sharply and reassure the Administration, investment spending may become the New Deal's 1939 economic program, a program in which the U. S. Government may become investment banker to the U. S. economy...
...Wheatland, Pa., Anthony Kesey's mother sent him to a grocery for kerosene 31 years ago. Last week Anthony Kesey came home. Said he: "Mother, it's Tony and I've brought your coal...