Word: furnishers
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...meet, which will be held May 30 and 31 on Soldiers Field, promises as usual to furnish brilliant competition. Entries have been made for six defending champions, including Wildermuth of Georgetown in the 100-yard dash; Hickey of New York University in the mile run; Kieselhorst of Yale in the 220-yard low hurdles; Hedges of Princeton in the high jump; Rothert of Stanford in the shot put, and Krenz of Stanford in the discus throw...
...Haverstraw, N.Y., came the Kent trained wild animal show, five days out of winter quarters, gaudy and bullish. Promptly things began to happen: 1) William Schultz, partner, found one of his valuable horses had been stolen, sold to a Negro for $20; 2) The local light company refused to furnish illumination on credit, the fodder merchants to furnish fodder; 3) After putting up the tent, the roustabouts struck, left; 4) The band followed the roustabouts; 5) A rainstorm came, razed the tent; 6) The tent manufacturer and the sheriff came and took the tent away; 7) The lions, hungry, broke...
Last week there congregated in Washington many a heavy thinker for the annual meeting of the National Academy of Sciences. Half a peanut an hour, the thinkers were told, would furnish sufficient calories to sustain their heaviest mental work; thus a small bag of peanuts each would have seen their brains through the three-day sessions of the Academy...
...that the popular notion that the calory demand of the brain is proportionate to its labor, is false. An oyster cracker or a half-peanut would sustain Albert Einstein's brain while doing intensive work on his field equations for one hour, the same number of calories would furnish a parlor maid only energy enough to dust a desk for five minutes...
...prime Prohibition test-case in Manhattan. The Hollywood is a popular middle-class night club of the post-Texas Guinan epoch. Its patrons are attracted by its moderate prices, its undress show. The place is Dry in that the management does not sell liquor, though it does furnish "setups" for guests who bring their...