Word: strangest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eventually frightened, Lena Campbell called in Dr. Charles Salo Jackson who has been practicing around Edison the past 20 years. "Strangest case I've ever seen," said Dr. Jackson. He advised asking Dr. Harding to take a look at the case...
...point with pride to a first-rate layout of picture pages, thoroughgoing and breezy coverage of city news, sports and the Broadway scene, an irreducible minimum of foreign news (as few as one or two stories a day), a profusion of spry comics and features, and the strangest boast ever made by a tabloid: "THE MOST TALKED-ABOUT EDITORIAL PAGE IN NEW YORK...
...opportunity to cut defense expenses and add still another $1,000,000 to Britain's surplus was finally lost last week to the MacDonald Government. Two years ago one of the richest and strangest of all British subjects, Dame Fanny Lucy Houston, offered to give ?200,000 of her own money to strengthen Britain's Army & Navy. After much deliberation it was refused. Later she changed this offer, to give the same amount of money for a special air defense for London. Refused a second time, persistent Lady Houston renewed the offer. Last week, still ignored, she withdrew...
...Stanley Cup is one of the strangest sporting trophies in the world. It was originally put up by England's Lord Stanley in 1893 for the amateur hockey championship of Canada. Since 1908 it has been emblematic of the world's professional championship. It cost $50. It looks like an ashtray on an obelisk. The cup itself, battered by travel and rough usage, long ago became too small to hold the names of all the teams that have won it. Ten 2-in. rings of silver have been added to its original base to make more room...
Spring Station is perhaps the strangest of stockholders' stamping grounds but some other corporations also select out-of-the-way places for their annual meetings. Mathieson Alkali meets at Saltville. Va. (pop.: 2,964), F. W. Woolworth Co. at Watertown, N. Y., near Utica where it was founded, Anaconda Copper at Anaconda, Mont. U. S. Steel meets at Hoboken, N. J., where it serves a light lunch. Not all big U. S. corporations seek inaccessible spots. Of the 29 with the largest number of U. S. stockholders, eight meet in New York, five in Wilmington, two each in Baltimore...