Word: handed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Choosing a man to spend that sum wisely might have been a hard task, but President Hoover found the man at hand. He appointed to be Administrator of Veterans' Affairs the Director of the Veterans' Bureau, Brig. General Frank Thomas Hines, Wartime Chief of Embarkation, famed Army administrator decorated by five nations. Continued the President: ''General Hines has been offered a very important commercial position, but has agreed to remain on temporarily to give me the advantage of his wide experience in reorganization of the new setup. As I have said, we will be able to make important economies...
...Bedford, Pa., Russell Lybarger, 18, chiseled at a Civil War bomb which the Lybargers used as a doorstop. The bomb exploded, mangled Russell Lybarger's hand...
...bickerings of a half-dozen self-ordained managers, to rehearse a few lines for their week's vaudeville engagement, to try and reckon their rewards. Having reduced their expectations from $200,000 to half that sum, the Hunter family last week could count about $25,500 in hand: from an oil company, $10,000; radio. $7,000; field gate receipts, $5,000; vaudeville, $2,000; instrument makers...
...Said he one day: it would be impossible to write a whole book, and make it interesting, about one day in the life of a country doctor. Authoress Ashton fooled him. She wrote most of Dr. Serocold on fishing trips in Ireland, scribbling in little notebooks in a microscopic hand which the rain helped make illegible to anyone else. She has also written three children's books...
...accessible to them. They are particularly responsive to it because they live in surroundings which stimulate peace of mind, and peace of mind is one of the essentials for the enjoyment of art. . . . People who live in congested centres and have to fight their way through traffic, watch in hand, and have to stop constantly for traffic signals, cannot have the state of mind and of soul which is the best preparation for the enjoyment...