Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...message to a press conference an hour before it was delivered to Congress and the Supreme Court. He beamed at newshawks with evident exuberance. He fairly smacked his lips over his adroit phrasing, revealing to the Press by intonation and ironic interjection his exhilaration over the most daring stroke he had yet attempted: his long-awaited blow to break the deadlock between the New Deal and the Supreme Court...
...stroke of twelve one midnight last week the Los Angeles Bureau of Power & Light acquired twp big generating stations, 7,600 mi. of line, 185,000 new customers and 800 new city employes. Few days before at a large 7 a. m. breakfast in the Los Angeles City Hall cafeteria, the Power Bureau's general manager, Ezra Frederick Scattergood, had handed President Addison Blanchard Day of Los Angeles Gas & Electric Corp. a check for $46,340,000. Private Powerman Day had handed Public Powerman Scattergood a deed to all his company's electric properties free & clear of debt...
...nine first places will be Art Johnson, who broke the pool record in the 200-yard breaststroke, Charlie Hutter in the 50-yard freestyle, Elisha Greenhood in the diving, Captain Colony in the 100-yard free style, Frank Coleman in the 440, and Cummin in the back stroke...
...Prymak of Huntington School, B. Davidson of Tome School, and Cooper of Moses Brown School, will compete in the 100-yard back stroke. In the 220-yard free style, Seth Heywood, Jr., of Andover and A. Greenhood of Exeter will strive for victory, as will Frank Schofield, Jr., of Moses Brown in the 100-yard free style. K. Twining of St. Gorge's will probably find T. H. Mahoney of Andover his strongest rival in the diving contest...
Considered the outstanding scholastic back stroke in the country, Harold Stanhope, who last year won the 100-yard back stroke and 220-yard free style for LaSalle School, will swim for Warwick High School this year. Gardner High, the favorite to win the Harvard Athletic Association Placque in the High School meet, has been runner-up for the last two years...