Word: stringes
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Plattsburg Group" of World War I fame) and the leadership of the New York Times's Julius Ochs Adler, they scheduled college mass meetings. First to go on record was a group of 250 Princeton alumni, who unanimously favored compulsory training, urged that the U. S. establish a string of training camps. Few days later 500 Williams men followed suit. Similar meetings were scheduled at Amherst, Yale, Harvard...
...Shanty. Memphis newspapers reported the Paddock gambling; the De Soto sheriff said he had never heard of it. Last fortnight the Shanty was raided and closed; the Paddock was not bothered. Word went about that Bob Berryman had talked with the sheriff, but the sheriff denied it. A second-string gambler and gorilla named John Phillips blustered that Bob Berryman was trying to be tsar of gaming in Memphis and environs. One night last week Bob Berryman chased John Phillips into a Memphis cafe, felled him with three shotgun charges and four bullets from a snub-nosed Colt...
...with the Devil; some swore they had seen Old Nick at the Italian violinist's side as he fiddled like the very devil himself. No one before him, and few after, could do what he did with a bow - extra long, for his abnormally long arm - and four strings. A haughty showman, he employed unusually thin strings, not only to produce extremely delicate harmonics (overtones two octaves higher than normal), but also, said some, so that he could break a string, use the remaining three as makeshift. To the fiddler's bag of tricks, Paganini contributed the left...
...technical staff has definitely given up the plan of continuing to broadcast by means of the University heating pipes. In order to receive the best reception it may be found necessary to string wires throughout the University buildings, a method used by other collegiate radio stations...
...unpreparedness last week was money. President Roosevelt had asked for $1,182,000,000 in emergency cash and authorizations (plus previously pending estimates). The Senate in its responsive enthusiasm added $364,221,468, in the process grabbed off surprisingly little pork ($2,311,000 for the archaic, scattered string of forts which Congress forces the Army to maintain). Main items...