Word: half
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...child should eat neatly at two and a half...
...home. Painter Owen's posters, reminiscent of the childlike, words-of-one-syllable cartoons of Hearstman Nelson Harding, belched and dripped with arson and mayhem, made Europe's troubles look like a chamber of horrors. In one a bolshevik-bearded, Kaiser-helmeted Nazi labeled Absolutism horsewhipped a half-clad damsel named Humanity, while the sausagelike corpses of Liberty and Justice lay strewn behind them across the map of Europe. Circumspect White Committee officials, who feared Painter Owen's horror scenes might affect stomachs rather than sympathies, hung them inconspicuously, hoped nobody would pay much attention to them...
...rest of the evening Jesse Lauriston Livermore, most fabulous living U. S. stock trader, sat brooding at his table while his wife danced with friends. It was just three years short of half a century since he had made his first play in the market-a $3.12 profit on Burlington Railroad common. He was 15 then, a board boy in Boston's Paine, Webber & Co. They told him to stay out of the bucket shops or quit his job. He quit. A towheaded greenhorn from West Acton, Mass., son of a poor Yankee farmer, he began beating the bucket...
...culmination is the National Depository, whose purpose is to "bring permanent prosperity to America." Its details he guards with crusty jealousy. After all, says O'Hearn, it took him eight years to figure out the scheme, so he doesn't expect anybody to grasp it in half an hour...
Johnny Burnham, of last year's Yardling squad, gave the meet a good start by downing Cyrus Kano, of Tech in the 321-pound class. Burnham won the scrap by a reverse body press, in eight and a half minutes just short of the nine minute deadline...