Word: summer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Facing him in the chair of the Commerce Committee was North Carolina's tight-mouthed Senator Josiah Bailey, whose long nose, for a long feud, Hopkins once tried to punch in the Mayflower Hotel lobby. Beating last summer's Purge had made Senator Bailey feel no more kindly toward one of its prime instigators. Chairman Bailey turned him over for questioning to Michigan's beetling Vandenberg, spokesman for the Republicans. Mr. Vandenberg, with an elaborate air of ironic courtesy, asked Mr. Hopkins what business experience had qualified him to fulfill such constitutional duties as, for example, running...
...this country by feeding them. What we need to end labor strife is more religion, more charity and a greater obedience to the will of God. ... Six more of the strikers' wives are pregnant, and it looks as if I will have quite a hospital bill by summer...
...alternately magnetizing and demagnetizing certain precooled salts, scientists have reached temperatures only a tiny fraction above absolute zero, −459.72° F. But hundreds of scientists assembled for a science congress in Canberra, Australia's capital, last week could do precisely nothing to alter a summer temperature of 108° in the shade...
...Paul's School he went to Harvard, where he roomed in dowdy Kirkland House, concentrated in government, joined Hasty Pudding and Owl. No college athlete, slender George Baker made news in 1936 when he caught a 622-lb. black marlin off Panama. He made news again last summer with his marriage to Frances Drexel Munn, Philadelphia descendant of Astors and Biddies...
...pound six footer who has a scholarship, Sears played on the Freshman football team this fall. During the summer he sold ice 12 hours a day for $20 a week; he has driven trucks for his father, who has a small paper hauling business operating from North Attleborough...