Word: ice
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...though the individual recruits were not surprises, the whole procedure-the sudden formation of a block of ice in southeastern Europe, where before there had just been chilly water-was not pleasant for Britain and her friends to contemplate. The New Order was actually becoming a reality, the Drang nach Osten was dranging. At week's end Bulgaria was maneuvering for its life, Yugoslavia was encircled for all practical purposes, Russia was a not too encouraging enigma, and only Greece and Turkey seemed to have sufficient gumption to resist...
...story Hiram Walker Whiskey sign on the corner of Randolph Street and the Outer Drive, one of the biggest electric signs in the world, crashed in a mass of twisted steel and broken light bulbs. On the Great Lakes the 4,220-ton freighter William B. Dacock, ice-covered, was driven on the rocks, broke in two, killing all of her crew of 33. A car ferry and four other vessels were grounded. When the storm was over, the casualties-sailors, hunters, city dwellers -totaled 159. Four ships were sunk, over 1,000,000 turkeys were frozen, boosting the price...
Figure skating on rollers is similar to figure skating on blades-except that roller skaters use the heel & toe where ice skaters use the blade's edges. Both have approximately the same 41 school figures. At the Arena Gardens, which "skate about 6,000 a week" at 50? a head, Manager Martin offers a half hour's free instruction in figure skating, elementary or advanced dancing every night. His 30-year-old son Bob and 19-year-old daughter Marjorie, aided by two other professionals, teach figure skating all day, at 50? to $1.50 for a 20-minute...
...Funnyman Joe Cook has thought up some 1,000 implausible inventions of the Rube Goldberg order, never sold one until last week. Then he sold one for $1,000. It was a doughnut-dunking machine (a pulley-and-string contraption) featured in his present Broadway show, It Happens on Ice. Purchaser was Doughnut Corporation of America. The sale was authentic, the money real. For Doughnut Corp., $1,000 for publicity was cheap...
...Commuters all tied up in knots all afternoon, kept them outside the thirty, and threatened to score numerous times, but with three periods gone the game was still tied up. It took Tom Broidrick's too to finally rack up three points and put the game on ice with a few minutes left in the game, as charges with a perfect boot from twenty-he stole the march on Dick Harlow's five yards...