Word: stone
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stomach sweetener, at 2 p. m. Sundays. Tenor John McCormack will sing lush Irish ballads for Vince mouthwash. Spindling Nat Shilkret & orchestra will provide a background for the Vitamin A in Smith Brothers couph-drops. Nino Martini will sing for Lirit bath softener. Actor Fred Stone, a comparative newcomer to radio, will have his wife and three daughters with him on a Gulf Refining Co. program...
Professor Francis Otto Matthiessen, of the department of History and Literature, weights eleven or twelve stone, measures some five foot eight, has brown eyes and lightish hair, is young, single and believes firmly in the possibilities of literature applied to life. As one of the gentlemen who writes the examinations for the field of History and Lit, he is the cause of much trepidation among the orthodox English literature tycoons; to others, to the majority, in fact, he has shone as the white hope of the department ever since being appointed. And to remain this to the English department...
This regard for the interests of the undergraduate should take form of a progressive lowering of the cost of participation fees and locker fees, either or both. The inclusion of all in the tax will serve as a foundation stone for the eventual lowering of the tax; this foundation should be strengthened by a reasonable curtailment of team trips. The Association has a delicate three-sided task before it: it must treat with impartiality its obligations to the students and to the University; and, further, it must arrange to deal equably with both those students who are members of teams...
...substitution of the Latin alphabet for the old Arabic and given Turkey a new calendar, Dictator Kemal lately turned to history as taught in the schools. He caused an official textbook to be prepared for cheap and universal circulation. The first volume tells how Turkey passed through the Old Stone Age 5,000 years before Wrestern Europe. The famed Amazons were Turkish women. The early Chinese dynasties, the Indo-European Hindus, the Etruscans, Trojans and Cretans were really of Turkish origin...
...turned and ran back, staying mostly on the surface. After an hour and one-half he shook himself so violently that the hook came out of his mouth-but caught again in his side, making him even harder to handle. When he was exhausted he sounded. "Pumping" him up stone dead from the bottom was excruciating labor. A commercial boat's block & tackle was required to hoist the prize finally inboard...