Word: spun
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...answer is that in early cotton spinning days, a peculiarly damp climate with chronic "bad weather" was necessary to make the cotton fibres cling properly together as they were spun into thread. All England is damp, but the atrocious weather typical of Lancashire, is positively ideal?for cotton spinning. Nurtured on this gift of Providence the mills of Lancashire have grown until they now number close to 2,000?for the most part, small, ugly mills employing a few hundred craftsfolk in each...
...Manhattan last week Florenz Ziegfeld Jr. spun around in his chair and seized a telephone. In Los Angeles, Fred Stone soon heard his telephone bell ring. Mr. Ziegfeld wanted Dorothy, golden-haired dancing daughter of Mr. Stone, to proceed immediately to Manhattan to play the lead in Show Girl. Where was Dorothy? On Will Rogers' ranch outside Hollywood, said her father. "Call her," snapped Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that Will Rogers had no telephone in his breezy retreat. "Fly to her," pleaded Mr. Ziegfeld. Fred Stone said that he had risked no flying since his nearly fatal air accident last...
...Across the Hudson River between two gigantic steel towers in Manhattan and New Jersey was spun, with appropriate ceremonies (Governors handshaking), the first strand of the first cable of the world's largest suspension bridge. Built by the Port of New York Authority at a cost of 60 millions, the bridge will have a span of 3,568 ft., 206 ft. above water, supported by four wire cables, each three feet in diameter. Date of completion...
...first slim indication of a comparison between the Harvard and Yale University crews came today when each boat covered the four mile course rowing against the watch. The Crimson eight, taking to the water first, spun down the four miles from Bartlett's Cove to the railroad bridge at a beat of 25 strokes to the minute in 22 minutes 17 seconds, The tide and a light breeze aided the Harvard oarsmen...
...distinguished individual who lists five sports and innumerable committee and executive positions. Of the man who spent his four years in conscientious searching after truth and gradual strengthening of the fibres of his character there will be little more to be seen than of those who toiled not but spun in perhaps ever decreasing circles...