Word: special
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...churches, Armistice Day has been an occasion for thoughts of peace, for high resolve to keep out of wars. Last week the Federal Council of Churches issued a special 1939 Armistice Day request: let all its 131,043 constituent and cooperating churches in the U. S. set their bells a-tolling at 11:02 a.m. Object: "A protest against war . . . a prayer for peace." As amen, the North American Guild of Carillonneurs promised that all 50-odd U. S. carillons would also tintinnabulate...
Because they believe that many of these subjects cannot be discussed by boys & girls together without embarrassment, the authors advised that they be taught separately, not in special classes but in courses such as physical education and home economics, where boys & girls are naturally separated...
...fond of thoroughbreds, and had just bought a sizable interest in the old down-at-heels Pimlico race track outside Baltimore. But the prize he offered for his dream race was only $10,000, mere timothy to big U. S. stables.* Most racing experts did not give the Pimlico Special an outside chance to attain the prestige of a World Series or a Rose Bowl...
...last week, however, the Pimlico Special (a weight-for-age affair at a mile-and-three-sixteenths for three-year-olds and up) was recognized as the annual post-season race that determines the U. S. thoroughbred champion. Some 25,000 turf fans crammed into Pimlico's mid-Victorian stands to see if this year's Special would be as dramatic as the first two.† Contenders for the title were William L. Brann's three-year-old Challedon, Charles S. Howard's four-year-old Kayak II and Townsend B. Martin's four-year...
...coal (used in blast furnaces for iron-making, in open hearth furnaces for steel), West Coast steel plants would depend on electric furnaces fueled by new Bonneville generators to process iron ore (or scrap) directly into steel. A January 1938 War Department publication noted that stainless and other special electrolitic steels for war purposes are "peculiarly adapted for production in the Pacific Coast low cost power areas...