Word: sets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...suggested during the meeting that a committee be appointed to undertake the purchase of a reliable Ping Pong outfit. For some time the discussion raged, as the issue seemed an important one. Finally the motion was overthrown. The winning argument was that a Ping-Pong set would make too much noise...
...poem and have it read among the supreme ten-what exquisite happiness ! Every year at least 30,000 Japanese write and enter poems in the contest. If they live abroad they frequently cable them to the Imperial Household Ministry. Last week the Ministry announced, amid general rejoicing, that the set theme for Imperial Poems this year will be "KAIHEN NO IWAWO" or "ROCKS AT THE OCEAN'S FRINGE...
...heels until the ninth hole in the afternoon when he knocked the wrong ball in the hole trying to putt past a stymie. He did the same thing on the next hole and then Diegel won three in a row to get his name on the radio set...
...Frederick Madison Allen, 50, who as a Rockefeller Institute man introduced fasting or undernutrition as a treatment of diabetes, a new kind of specializing hospital is developing in the U. S.-physiatric hospitals. All general hospitals of course treat the metabolic disorders. Dr. Allen was the first to set up a special shop, the Physiatric Institute, in Banker Otto Hermann Kahn's onetime mansion at Morristown, N. J. That was in 1920. Since then two of his pupils have branched off-Frederick S. Modern, 32, at Arrowhead Springs, San Bernardino County, Calif. (1926) and James Winn Sherrill...
Louis XI was no picture-book king. He had "a long ugly nose . . . a pair of oblique eyes too deeply set, thin lips, a powerful jaw . . . a jutting chin;" was less than middle height, bald, thin-shanked, shabbily dressed. A great talker himself, though direct and blunt, he required others to be the soul of brevity. Like many autocrats, he preferred plain people to the aristocracy. His favorite hat, high-peaked, shapeless, banded with leaden images of saints, was famed. But once at least he ordered a new one. He wrote to his General of Finances: "I have forgotten...