Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...ever see Mr. Hull angry. One of the few is his wife, Rose Frances Witz Whitney Hull, who never knows whether the fierce "Chwist!"* that comes from the bathroom in the mornings at shaving time means he has cut his jugular or is thinking of some dastardly tariff provision. Mrs. Hull, descended from an old Jewish family of Staunton, Va., is an Episcopalian, is generally regarded as the best all-around wife in the Cabinet. The Hulls have no children...
...high as a ten-story building, her barrel 120 feet long. Her shells weighed 264 lbs. and traveled nearly one mile a second. They rose at an angle of 50°, hit the stratosphere ten miles up, traveled through its rarefied atmosphere to a height of 24 miles before starting down. The earth's rotation had to be calculated in elevating (for range) and laying (for deflection) Big Bertha, for as the earth turned Paris toward the shells she lofted, it tended to make Bertha overshoot. At best her aim could not be relied on within a target area...
...almost any Saturday during the season U. S. football fans can see a game as exciting as the Rose Bowl game. But California boosters have built Pasadena's Tournament of Roses sideshow into the country's No. 1 sport extravaganza. From Thanksgiving to New Year's Day the majority of U. S. citizens, from Polish mill hands to Park Avenue dandies, babble Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl, Rose Bowl. This year's babble was noisier than usual. For this year's game was one that U. S. fans have been waiting for for over a year...
Year ago Tennessee had the smoothest-clicking football team in the U. S. It won every game on its ten-game schedule. But Southern California, the West's best, preferred to tackle Duke rather than Tennessee in its post-season Rose Bowl game. This year Coach Howard Jones's Trojans, twice tied, proved the West's best once more. Coach Bob Neyland's Tennessee Volunteers once more bowled over their ten opponents-this time letting no one cross their goal line. Southern California had to face the music-or face another ribbing from U. S. sportswriters...
...Stanley was permitted only a brief statement, but as the hearing neared its close the most persistent man in Wall Street plowed back to his favorite subject. Said he: "... I put my own ideas in the form of a memorandum which I would like very much to submit. . . ." Up rose Leon Henderson: "I object. ... I regard it as decidedly a disregardance of the orderly presentation of information. ... If it needs any stronger language I will be glad to offer...