Word: tiers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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John Harvard meets Eli Yale and the Princeton Tier tonight when two Crimson debating teams discuss the problem of feeding the small democracies. One group will journey to Nassauland, while another will meet Yale in the Boston Harvard Club at 8 o'clock...
Streams. The Census showed that certain rivers of migration, begun in the decade before last, still flowed on. The great exodus was from Oklahoma and the other drought-area States in the Great Plains tier (see map). Fastest-growing State was Florida, where sunshine, bathing beauties, vistas of white sand and palm trees, pleasure domes and gambling dens continued to lure the wealthy, the retired and the relaxed. Second in the rate of population growth was New Mexico, where discouraged Okies, who could get no farther, had bogged down. Third fastest-growing State: California, another sun-worshipers' Mecca. Fastest...
Into the grand ballroom of Washington's Mayflower Hotel last week ambled two cows, two horses, five sheep, seven dogs, a covey of Congressmen. At the far end of the ballroom a tier of seats was jammed with spectators. On the sawdust-sprinkled floor, a man in white moved into a spotlight to pour several gallons of Epsom salts through a tube into a cow's stomach. The show was no circus, but a serious scientific meeting-one of the clinical sessions of the American Veterinary Association's annual convention...
...told her of our education program and pointed out North Carolina made very generous provision for the education of all races. . . . She was interested. I gave tier a resume...
...Metropolitan Opera House was bought for $1,425,000 by 35 members of New York's swankest families. From them the Opera Company leased the building to produce its operas in. In payment for this lease the Company allowed its 35 landlords to occupy the 35 first-tier boxes of the Opera House (the "Diamond Horseshoe") at an annual assessment that reached a high last year...