Word: sawed
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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Bolivia: Announced a legal holiday with a two-minute period of silence. Hundreds of students and public authorities scrambled up Cerro Rico, the peak from which Bolivar first saw the country that was to bear his name...
Curls of scented smoke arose last week before a brand new bronze statue in the Kuonji temple gardens of Yamanashi Prefecture, 70 mi. from Tokyo. Musical instrument dealers bought bowls of sacred rice, hoped business would be better. Foreigners inspected the statue with interest. They saw a heroic bronze figure in the robes of a Buddhist priest but with the head of a large shaggy dog. In his lap rested a Buddhist nun with the head of a cat. Balanced precariously on top of the dog-headed priest was a little figure of Buddha, blessing the pair...
...knows how to make a good saw and who was Wartime purchaser of helmets and armor for the U. S. Government, watched the construction of one of the world's strangest buildings last week in Fitchburg, Mass. He was Alvan Tracy Simonds, president since 1913 of Simonds Saw & Steel Co. For him Austin Co., Cleveland construction engineers, is building the first windowless factory, designed to increase the output of manpower 33 ⅓%. The structure, one story high, consists of only one large room covering about five acres in which executives may sit undisturbed while saws are machine-made...
...clambered up through the cowling of his front cockpit and started back over the wing to direct him. Meanwhile the pilot who had no time to lower the plane's retractable wheels, aimed his forced landing at a plowed field, skilfully "skidded her in." Just before landing, he saw Engineer Forberger lose his hold and disappear. Had the plane been 100 ft. higher, the engineer's parachute might have saved his life...
...strapping young Chicago reporter stepped into a cinema theatre. It was perhaps the third time in his life he had "gone to the movies." What he saw-D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation-made his eyes pop, his heart thump. An industry doing things like that, he decided, was the place for him. So Reporter Martin Quigley quit his job with the Chicago evening Post and two months later began publishing the Exhibitors Herald. After absorbing two competitors, Motography, Motion Picture World, the magazine became the potent Exhibitors Herald-World and Publisher Quigley was a millionaire...