Word: tying
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...depressing hour of eight-thirty. He noticed a familiar, ugly gray catalogue entitled "Official Register of Harv----." In a flash he understood: it was registration day for Freshmen. Work to be done, he murmured, as the pulled on clothes--the least unpressed coat, the two-day old shirt, the Tie. Presently he found himself ambling across the Yard, staring wide-eyed at arboreal disaster on all sides. He crossed Cambridge Street and took up his position in the noisy line of solicitors at the back door of Memorial Hall...
Harry Hopkins, the social uplift zealot, remains today No. 1 Janizary but his position as head of WPA ties him down a bit. Jim Farley, converted last fortnight to the Purge-wherever it has a chance of working-remains Janizary No. 2 ex-officio, but his duties as Democratic National Chairman are gentle and routine, such as running to New England last week to beg Maine to "get in step." Solicitor General Jackson, now busy getting ready for the Monopoly Investigation, for a time was Janizary No. 3, but none of these can match in energy, facility or ubiquitousness...
...Imperial Majesty, Reza Shah Pahlavi, Shah of Iran, ceremoniously hammered a golden spike into a railway tie last week. Later, excited Iranians in Teheran watched the first train to make the trip from Bandar Shahpur, on the inlet Khor Musa of the Persian Gulf, pull in to Iran's inland capital. Thus the Trans-Iranian Railway, most spectacular, most expensive railroad enterprise undertaken since the World War, was pronounced completed. The railroad is the dream come true of a westernizing, wilful ruler who still believes in the 19th-Century notion that railroad-building is a matter of national prestige...
...hours, ran 6½ miles; how the mayor of Pudsey sent him a telegram after every 50 runs; how, when he surpassed Don Bradman's record, the game was interrupted, all the players shook his hand, a waiter in tails and white tie scampered onto the field with a drink of lemonade, 30,000 spectators rose as one and sang For He's a Jolly Good Fellow...
Before two members of the Dies House Committee investigating Un-American Activities who went to investigate in Manhattan last week, appeared a small, excitable Italian in grey shirt and black string tie. Girolamo Valenti's mission is to keep Benito Mussolini out of the U. S. He is chairman of the Italian Anti-Fascist Committee, was editor of La Stampa Libra, now defunct. Mr. Valenti told the investigators a startling story about how Mussolini is roping in U. S. school children...