Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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First. A President didn't get that way through being "unpolitical." Herbert Hoover's Addresses Upon the American Road, 1933-1938, is crowded with proof that an ex-President never stops campaigning for the good old party-and to hell with the country...
...Saginaw, Mich. dressmaker, Bill Watson-who is earning his way through college by waiting on table and acting as secretary to Prize Fighter Joe Louis-is considered the best all-round track man in the U. S. Besides winning the Big Ten championship in the shot put, broad jump and discus three years in a row, he has cleared the high jump at 6 ft. 5 ¾ in., has run 100 yd. in 10.1 sec., 440 yd. in 55 sec. If he can brush up on the pole vault, javelin, high hurdles and the 1,500-meter...
...Goodyear's own plantations, he must gamble more heavily than his competitors on war or peace as well as recovery or depression when he goes to market. In the spring of 1937, when commodity prices threatened to run away, Goodyear bought heavily, and when Depression II got under way, Goodyear had to take a $10,343,000 loss-in spite of which Goodyear had enough operating profit left over...
...Story. Miss Lillie Ravenel was a rebel. At 19 she was tall, slender, graceful, blushed easily and had a way of looking at a young man with her blue eyes so lively and intent that each thought she was especially interested in himself. And, says De Forest, this "was frequently not altogether a mistake." Miss Ravenel was born in New Orleans, loved it, admired it, complained that she was lonely as a mouse in a trap in the New Boston House in New England, whither her father carried her when Louisiana seceded. New Englanders, she said, were right poky...
...professional in the slick-paper magazine school of fiction. Twice as ingenious as most of his rivals, he has two standard plots: 1) streamlined, wisecracking romances, in which a duffer outwises the wise guys, 2) yarns-mostly historical-in which all stops are pulled out to paean the American Way. Arizona, a Civil War yarn published last week, uses Plot...