Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Paris, the authoritative Beaux-Arts magazine noted Queen Elizabeth's recent purchase of a painting by Wilson Steer and a portrait of George Bernard Shaw by Augustus John. Added the Beaux-Arts: this was the first occasion since before the reign of Charles I (1625-49) that the British Royal Family has acquired a picture solely for its artistic merits...
...wake of the Panic of 1857, "that nest of gamblers the Brokers' Board" (socalled by a Manhattan newspaper seeking to fix responsibility for the financial chaos) met one day to elect a new president. The jittery board finally picked the one man they thought could steer them out of trouble-Henry George Stebbins, a skilled yachtsman who later became commodore of the New York Yacht Club. Under President Stebbins the New York Stock Exchange weathered the Panic, headed for the dazzling days of the Civil War boom...
...poor) and the town of Frostproof rates Ca (one notch above worthless). Last week 500 delegates to the annual Conference of the Municipal Finance Officers' Association sat down in St. Paul's Hotel Lowry to investigate the whys & wherefores of such sorry ratings, learn how to steer a straighter course through Depression...
Westerner: Shades of Buffalo Bill, mister! You should've seen these deserts four years ago. White and dry like a steer's skeleton...
Built and maintained by public subscription or private endowment, to train Scandinavian and Polish boys in seamanship, they carried from 80 to 100 youngsters on cruises on which the boys did all the work-"hand, reef, and steer, and keep the ship up." Because there were no able-bodied seamen aboard, the ships lay at anchor for the first part of the cruise, until the boys learned to handle them. Almost all the world's navies now train sailors on sailing vessels, but only in the Baltic countries are citizens interested enough to provide such training for the merchant...