Word: along
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...afternoon last week a man walking along placid West Main Street in Belleville, Ill. suddenly looked up in horror, saw something approaching that looked like a giant black ice cream cone and roared with the noise of a hundred freight trains. That day, the same ominous sight and sound terrified farmers and townsfolk at random points through the Mississippi valley in Arkansas, Mississippi, Tennessee, Missouri, Alabama and Iowa. But in Belleville, where it was to destroy some 60 dwellings, kill ten people and injure 35, last week's twister struck hardest...
Last week, the example of Germany fortnight ago in bringing within the Reich the whole of Austria without bloodshed (TIME, March 21) appeared to be irresistibly attractive to the Polish Government. Polish Marshal Smigly-Rydz showed up in Vilna and marshaled over 50,000 Polish troops along the frontier of Lithuania, which has an army of some 22,000. When the sabre had been thoroughly rattled, Polish President Ignacy Moscicki and Foreign Minister Josef Beck, just back in Warsaw after conferring in Rome with II Duce, dispatched to President Antanas Smetona of Lithuania demands asking nothing more than that...
Apparently decided for the time being on the recently revamped infield, Mitchell has named first-baseman and Captain Ulysses Lupien, newly converted second-sacker Dave Shean, Art Johns at short, and Dick Grondahl, third baseman, along with the utility infielders, Russ Ayers and Dick Ulin...
...opposition to the Cambridge fifteen, which averages 180 pounds in the back-field and 200 on the front line, the Crimson will have such football notables as Princeton's Pepper Constable Bill Watt, Mike Cohen, Joe Kennedy, Pete Knapp, and George Downes, along with veteran ruggers Captain Ned Whitney and Henry Miller...
...Conant's interest in American civilization and aware, too, that there exists such a civilization. The Reading List for both students and general public, the Bliss prize for undergraduates not in the American field, and last month the establishment of an Extra-curricular Counselor for Freshmen; these have nursed along the Plan to the point where Harvard men are self-conscious about American culture. Soon, one gathers from the restless anticipation of certain faculty members, the Plan will attack the Houses on a new front, when next fall a Counselor in each House will be on tap for students interested...