Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vaguely improper about this procedure. Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes was for a bill introduced in the last Congress to set up a separate court budget. Then he reconsidered, quashed the measure. What gave him pause was the awful thought that a comptroller appointed by him might some day turn crook and thus impugn the Supreme Court itself...
...salt, sugar, matches, soap, etc., last week faced the prospect of didying her infant with her own platok (kerchief) because of an acute shortage of diapers. The Government organ Izvestia revealed that of the 1938 quota of 3,170,000 diapers, the Commissariat of Light Industry had managed to turn out only 765,900 in the first nine months of the year. To make matters worse, Izvestia somewhat puzzlingly added, "many of these failed to reach the ultimate consumer." Presaging a "purge" of the luckless officials, the paper blamed "inefficient organization...
...five optional dives used in a meet offer a larger repertoire, there being several new optionals of the "Flying" variety--all of which begin with a swan, then turn into something else. Captain Rusty Greenhood, league champion, Chet Sagenkahn, George Dana, and a host of Sophomore aspirants are now practicing these new methods of getting into the water...
...coveted Ukraine beyond. The possibility of effective resistance to a Hitler thus tempted was generally discarded. But recently King Carol visited London, stopped off at Berlin, and went home drastically to purge the fascist party. The purge followed within a few days of the Berlin visit. Such an unexpected turn of events strongly suggests a pointed rebuff to Hitler...
...three run rally by the Puritans in the sixth inning was not enough to turn the tide against the Commuters who were out to make up for their defeat at the hands of Kirkland Monday. Larry Alexander twirled for the winners while Pierce Butler was on the mound for Winthrop...