Word: thaws
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wish the College would lay plank walks in the Yard. As we wade through our classic enclosure on the sloppy days of the January thaw, or, when the signal man at Washington turns the water into ice, as we gracefully measure our length in front of the University, we think of this...
...showman, Pilot Turner zoomed into a grandiloquent flourish over the stands, banked off into the haze, landed. Excitedly, the timers calibrated their watches, finally announced the closest Bendix finish in history. Pilot Howard had won the 2,046-mi. race by 23½ seconds. Third was handsome Russell Thaw, son of Evelyn Nesbit & Harry Kendall Thaw...
...chiropractor pronounced it "dead." Then Dr. Willard popped Jekal into an icebox where the temperature was kept at - 30° C. ( - 22° F.). Five days later he removed the small, rigid, grey clump of fur & flesh from the refrigerator, invited newshawks to watch the proceedings, began to thaw it slowly in a chamber equipped with heating coils and a fan. When the body was warm and pliant, Dr. Willard gave the monkey a blood transfusion, then injected adrenalin chloride solution into the belly...
...reconstructed South continued to keep the Negro in his political place. San Francisco burned down; Harry Thaw shot Stanford White ; the 16th, 17th, 18th, 1 9th and 20th Amendments to the Constitution were ratified; Charles A. Lindbergh Jr. was kidnapped; Cordell Hull became Secretary of State. And on April 8, 1935, Delaware's Secretary of State solemnly notified Secretary Hull that Delaware had ratified the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments to the Constitution...
...brother, Harry Hays Morgan Jr., who had arrived from France a few days before: "He's a real prince, eh. what, to come all this way?" Besides Brother Harry, the prince found waiting to testify for Mrs. Vanderbilt her two sisters. Lady Furness and Mrs. Benjamin Thaw. Last to arrive, while Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney was winding up her case for the custody of her niece Gloria and her fortune, was ruddy Captain Jefferson Davis Cohn, British sportsman-adventurer. Said Captain Cohn, as he went in to kiss Mrs. Vanderbilt's hand: "It is all so un-English...