Word: skeletoned
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week, near the farmer's home, lumbermen brought down a tall pine tree. High in the branches they spied an eagle's nest. They came close to examine it. What they found made them cross themselves. There, surrounded by tatters of baby clothing, lay the skeleton of a 2-year-old child...
...ELEANOR MARE Chicago, Ill. Sirs: Suppose a few of the 400,000 do wish you to be more orthodox - orthodox-i.e, colorless - in your write ups. Don't do it. In the case of the President-elect your out spoken frankness is less pointed than the prevailing skeleton-in -the -cupboard attitude. Achievement is enhanced by physical handicap. Along with your range and terseness your great asset is your lifelike picturing of humans and happenings. Carry on, TIME. A. S. MACGREGOR East Aurora, X. Y. No clear majority of readers "commands otherwise." Scores of letters through last week...
...passengers were aboard. When the Atlantique caught fire at 3:30 a. m. she was being taken by a skeleton crew from Bordeaux, her home port, to Le Havre for a winter overhaul. Largest, fastest, most luxurious ship on the Europe-to-South America run, the Atlantique was almost new, had made only ten Atlantic round trips. She boasted "The Only Street Afloat," a thoroughfare 450 ft. long in the ship's belly. Down this mimic Rue de la Paix wealthy Brazilians, Argentinians and Chileans have strolled to buy in smart ship shops every French luxury imaginable, including swank...
...against the government, and has no real friend except his mother," began Dr. Robert Andrews Millikan. At the platform's left stood two glistening spheres on stark pedestals, capable of generating a million & a half volts of artificial lightning. From the shadows glowered the vast skeleton of a plaster dinosaur. All along the walls lay the paraphernalia of modern science. In every seat sat a scientist tensely waiting to hear how oppositely the two U. S. Nobel Laureates in Physics explained cosmic rays-Dr. Millikan, 64, preacher's son, head of California Institute of Technology; and Dr. Arthur...
...report calls attention to the increasing difficulty in obtaining commercial employment for students as a result of current business conditions. Commenting on a recent survey of 167 business firms, Mr. Sharpe says, "Executives were unanimous in stating that their concerns were having great difficulty in keeping even a skeleton force busy and on the payroll, and that, when part time or replacement work was available, it would be given to previous employees, reluctantly discharge through economic necessity. Many business men told us that, as they had pledged themselves to hire only married workers with dependents, they could not use students...