Word: totalizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary Walter White of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. *Total for 1936, ten, for 1937, seven...
...Total Congressional service of the Bankheads-including John and William's father, Senator John Hollis Bankhead- is a U. S. family record of 61 years. Of these William Bankhead accounts for 21. When, at his mother's request, he gave up an adolescent desire to go on the stage, spent two years in the State Legislature, got into Congress in 1917, William Bankhead's advice from his father was to learn the rules. He followed it, remained an amiable, well-liked but not particularly influential member of the House until despite a serious illness he was made...
...years. Last week in Philadelphia Billiardist Greenleaf and lantern-jawed Billiardist Irving Crane each had eight victories and three defeats after a three weeks' tournament among twelve top-ranking players. In the eleventh inning of the playoff, Crane, having scratched five times, found himself with a total of minus one to Greenleaf's 49. Then Billiardist Greenleaf strode to the table and started sinking balls so fast that one had scarcely thudded into a pocket before another followed it. Blandly running 76, Billiardist Greenleaf packed up his cues, moved off with the match, $1,500, and his 16th...
...remarkably good state show saves the evening from being a total wash-out. Twelve diving beauties of the Lottie Mayer Disappearing Water Ballet submerge themselves in a fascinating manner; Hal Le Roy taps far better than it has been Boston's privilege to enjoy for some time, and three unknown young ladies throw themselves all over the stage with amazing abandon...
Reading in The Daily that the Minnesota library is finally to be decently lighted reminds me that I have been intending to describe some of the outstanding features of Harvard's Widener Memorial Library. About two million of the total of 2,700,000 volumes which make up all of Harvard University's various libraries are housed in a large building on the Harvard Yard which was given in memory of a Harvard graduate who was drowned in the Titanic disaster. The building was completed in 1915 and its pillared grandeur rather overshadows the other buildings around...