Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Happy is he who is always a good comrade; he will make his way in the world...
...learned plaster casting in a Los Angeles plaster factory, tombstone cutting in San Francisco. As aids to the problems he was trying to work out in stone, he found himself covering sheets of paper with abstract drawings. In 1930 he began to paint, in 1931 worked his way to Paris, where he found a market for abstractions. He has stayed close to his market ever since...
Inaugurating a Be Rude to People Week, Jim Grouch snarled "G'wan, go back to sleep. There must be some easier way to earn a living." He instructed his listeners: "Instead of saying nice things to your hostess when the cocktails are lousy, tell her they're lousy." When, last week, Jim Grouch backslid, tried to launch a Be Helpful Week, his listeners objected so strenuously that he cut the program short...
...Bespectacled Sydney Wooderson, 124-Ib. Briton who holds the world's record for a mile (outdoors): a new world's record for a half-mile (1:49.2); at Hotspur Park, London. On the way, Runner Wooderson also broke the record for 800 metres...
...Western Reserve University summer school in Cleveland, Isaac S. Metcalf Jr., writing a thesis on the subject of what minnows eat, discovered that the best way to get minnows for experiments was out of the stomachs of fresh fish, spent the summer fishing...