Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Worst swamped of the nation's 84 judicial districts was Southern New York, embracing New York (Manhattan), Bronx, Westchester and eight other counties. On June 30 it had more than 8,000 cases pending, as compared to 5.000 for the Southern District of California, next worst. A suit entered in Southern New York comes to trial about two years later. Last session, Congress gave Southern California, where cases wait 18 months, two additional Federal judges. Last week the Judges' Conference urged that the number of judges in its Southern New York District be upped from eight...
...announced that Mr. McDonough had been counted out. "NO!" the convention roared back at startled Mr. Green. The roll-call vote on a proposal to withhold action on Mr. McDonough's ouster until a compromise might be settled this week was 18,092½ -to-10,602, the worst reverse the Federation's electorate has given President Green since he took office eleven years ago. Few days later, however, President Green happily announced that the disputants had agreed to have the matter settled by an arbitration committee...
Trying for a comeback alter the worst season in ten years. Southern California ran into the efficient snag of Illinois' brilliant overhead game...
Frantically alarmed as the minutes ticked away, United Airlines officials sent out soldiers, ambulances, airplanes in search, tried to imagine what kind of accident had occurred. Not until dawn did they learn, and then the news was the worst possible. Looking down into the rough jumble of hills in Crow Creek Valley, 13 miles from Cheyenne, a searching pilot spied the gleaming fuselage of the plane lying like a disemboweled fish at the end of a quarter-mile trail of destruction. Scattered along this were shreds of cloth, lipsticks and compacts, magazines, pieces of sheet music, and, almost touching...
...long embrassing conversations; there were short embracing silences. There were those who cut in; there were those who, most unfortunately, did not. There was an evening mist; there were missed chances. There were scrambled eggs; there were scrambled dances. There were the best of times, and there were th worst of times. And there was the line, the widows from Winsor; "Good night, Mr. Jones. We're home on Mondays." But it's Smith, Madam. As in Smithsonian, you know. "Smithsonian? Indeed, I have seen it. Rare specimen's there...