Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...winter afternoon in 1891, a gymnasium instructor at Springfield Y. M. C. A. College, Springfield, Mass., named James A. Naismith divided his class of 18 into two sides, gave them an old soccer ball, had them toss it through two bottomless peach baskets hung on the wall. That was the beginning of what is now the most popular winter game in the U. S. Last year, Olympic officials discovered that basketball is played by 18,000,000 addicts almost the world around, therefore added it to the program at Berlin next summer...
...technique of being winsome, dumb and sexy all at the same time, she hoofed obscurely in the choruses of several musicals, played in half a dozen inferior legitimate shows without exciting much remark. She was born 26 years ago in Dobbs Ferry. N. Y. Last summer she married a Wall Streeter named James Daniel Thompson. Less attractive on the screen than behind footlights, she appeared in The President Vanishes and One-Way Ticket. Champagne is her favorite drink. She plays ping-pong and tennis, likes sail boats, thinks President Roosevelt is "doing all right...
...Representative John Joseph O'Connor, sent the following telegram: "If you will please come to Washington, I shall guarantee to kick you all the way from the Capitol to the White House, with clerical garb and all the silver in your pockets which you got by speculating in Wall Street. . . ." Said the Radio-Priest: "I'll be on the Capitol steps at 10 o'clock Wednesday morning...
...step with the Wall Street march was Investment Counselor W. H. Roystone, who declared: ''There is no basis at the present time for hedging against inflation. Inflation, when it comes, will start with the Congress of 1937. In fact, the situation now is such as to justify the sale of stocks rather than their purchase. Every indication points to a much lower market this summer. Business improvement has not carried through." Predicting an unprecedented boom from 1937 to 1939, then a terrific crash, followed by prolonged depression, he advised Republicans that it "would be very unwise...
Earthquakes and glass flowers apparently never caused much concern among the architects of the University Museum. The massive horizontal timbers which support the several floors are not firmly attached to the walls. Instead, each end of the beam rests in an iron sling which is in turn suspended from a stout "bracketlike" bar, anchored in the wall masonry. All of which leaves the beam free to move in its supporting sling...