Word: shores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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During the summers of 1923-24, while still a high school student, I worked for the North Shore Railroad at Ravinia Grand Opera. One evening near the middle of the second summer there was unusual excitement in the air, for Madam Bori was leaving for Europe after the evening's opera...
...much fun was Franklin Roosevelt having that he scrawled his signature on a bill to extend for one year the Federal Housing Administration's power to insure remodeling loans and went right on with his fishing, postponing his return to shore until the middle of this week...
...York Athletic Club's Peter Fick equaled one of the most formidable records in the sport by winning a preliminary heat of the 100-yd. dash in Johnny Weissmuller's record time-51 sec. And after four days of spluttering & splashing in the Lake Shore Athletic Club pool, the Amateur Athletic Union's National indoor swimming championships ended in Chicago last week with 25 new marks for the record book and at least three new girl prodigies whose faces, framed in foam and furnished with toothy smiles, will decorate this summer's rotogravure sections...
Only company to imitate Campbell's condensed soups in a big way was Phillips Packing Co., a smallish, flamboyantly aggressive concern with headquarters in Cambridge, in the heart of Maryland's fertile Eastern Shore vegetable belt. Phillips not only crashed the U. S. soup mar ket with a condensed soup; it sold...
...little freighter, Commander Sir Edgar Britten, Cunard White Star's commodore and commander of the Queen Mary, was locked in the Arctic ice near Archangel for five months. To him the next 20 minutes seemed as long. Could the eight tugs get Queen Mary off? Gaping crowds on shore stood only 20 feet from her stern, watched an epic feat of British seamanship...