Word: slide
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...slide for children was given to Fleishhacker Park. The Fleishhacker Swimming Pool (formerly known as the Municipal Swimming Pool) is not in Golden Gate Park as TIME stated but is over a mile away...
...givers in its Senior year--the largest number of men that have ever given from a Class still in College. Obviously this figure is easily within our reach. There are always a number of men who mean to contribute but who are letting the matter slide for no particular reason. Donations are acceptable throughout the year but it is particularly hoped that Seniors will give before graduation and that from now on the prize Class will be 1932. Eustis Dearborn '32, Class Agent...
...hour of the slide was 8:30 a. m. The nation was just about to vote. Mayor Herriot, of whom it is said "he could sell the Lyonese as slaves and they would make no objection," had just finished his coffee & croissant. Clapping on his old slouch hat he rushed, baggy trousers flapping, to the landslide. Five minutes later Fire Chief Rossignol (Nightingale) arrived and Lyonese firemen attacked the ruins, working furiously to rescue entrapped persons before there should be another slide. Like a commanding general Mayor Herriot backed off, took a perspective view of the hillside, conferred with city...
Events beyond any one man's control which made this Conservative victory possible included the Labor Cabinet's split, the Naval mutiny and sterling's slide off gold?but it was the Conservative Party machine, reorganized, conciliated within itself and tuned up by Neville Chamberlain which all over England turned the Labor enemy's defeat into a rout. That rout was the reason why the 1932-33 Budget of His Majesty's Exchequer was presented to the House of Commons last week by Rt. Hon. Arthur Neville Chamberlain as Chancellor...
...early rounds, 16 ping-pong tables were set up in the Waldorf ball room, with eight feet of free space behind each. Most of the contestants wore leather-soled shoes because rubber ones gripped the carpet and made it slide. They wore blue shirts, to improve the background. One S. A. Hamid, a Hindu, got his picture taken because he wore a picturesque beard, but he was soon beaten. Only 10% of the players used the old-fashioned penholder grip. Their rackets were faced with rubber, not sand or wood. The peculiar patter of the balls sounded like a storm...