Word: envelope
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Number 24--Harry K. Wells '34, quarterback, Crimson number 1 forward pass man; watch him envelop the ball with a single hand...
...Mexican eyes: Diego Rivera, the world's foremost living fresco painter. A guard called to Rivera to come down from his scaffold. He laid down his big brushes and the tin kitchen plate he uses for a palette, climbed nimbly down the ladder. Mr. Robertson handed him an envelop. It held a check for $14,000, last payment on the $21,000 due Rivera for his work. It held too a letter telling him he was fired. Artist Rivera woodenly went to his work shack on the lobby balcony to change from his overalls. At once more guards appeared...
...agency in competition with citizens. The N. P. M. A. replied that it was grower-owned and controlled, borrowing money from the Farm Board only as it would from a bank. Last week Southland President Sidney Goldberg Simmons told the entire trade that, "like a giant octopus whose tentacles envelop and crush the object of its prey, the N. P. M. A. is slowly but surely undermining the foundation of a great industry. . . . Our vigilance has been too keen to render us a martyr to the cause ... if the rights are taken from the people, then we can expect...
...Zealand butter and tariff protection, on Democratic campaign tactics and a newspaper clipping of 50 years ago. Thus the separate paragraphs were being woven together into an oratorical tapestry when an aide knocked on the study door, told the President it was nearly train time. Into a big envelop the loose paragraphs remaining on the table were swept. Out of the study and out of the White House without a backward glance marched the President to start for Palo Alto on his first trip home in four years...
First by train and next by forced marches up Shantung's best motor road, War Lord Han rushed Chefooward, then spread out his forces in an 80-mi. offensive front, aiming to envelop and crush Liu's troops among the mountains of Chefoo...