Word: tightly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With Senator La Follette and Governor Schmedeman sitting on the platform be hind him at Green Bay, the President with the grace of a tight-rope walker ringingly declared...
...door was hoisted into place on its lugs and screwed down tight with spanners and mauls. The supporting boom swung over the side, cable squeaked, the sphere ducked under. Cable was paid out at 50 ft. per minute. Log of the dive : 500 ft.: School of silvery squid. 900 ft.: Color of water turquoise black...
...five million souls throughout British Malaya and Dutch East Indies are the gainers. When cocoa rises 1½¢ per lb. from its year's low of 4¼¢, as it did last week, native growers all along Africa's west coast rejoice. The fact that tin is being held tight by a tight-fisted cartel at 52¢ per lb. means steady employment in Bolivia, Siam, Nigeria, Dutch East Indies and the Malaya States. When silk rises from its Depression low to its price last week of $1.20 per lb., Japan can and does buy more scrap steel from...
...smiles make them the most attractive athletes in the country, Olive McKean is 18, a product of Seattle's municipal competitions. Last spring she graduated from high school, plans to continue amateur competition at least until the 1936 Olympic Games. Over her brown, bobbed hair she wears only one tight cap, insists that it must have no chinstrap. Built like Helene Madison (5 ft. 10 in., 145 lb.) she swims the same way, with an extraordinary glide between long and languid-looking strokes. This is partly due to the fact that McKean and Madison had the same coach...
...pain. He also bought a Buick, a Packard, a Cadillac, kept a chauffeur. He bought his father a home in Meridian, built himself a $50,000 house in Kerrville, Tex., where his wife and 13-year-old daughter now live. He wore loud neckties, occasionally a ten-gallon hat, tight-waisted coats. He did vaudeville turns throughout the land, met Will Rogers at a San Antonio unemployment benefit, stole the show...