Word: armes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...record and an unchallenged claim to eastern tennis supremacy were blasted yesterday afternoon, when a 6-3 drubbing was administered to them by a fighting team of Princeton Tigers. The Crimson team was seriously handicapped by the fact that Sandy Davenport, stellar number one man, was suffering from an arm injury which prevented him from offering more than a slight resistance to Thomas D. Flynn, Tiger star, who defeated him 6-0, 6-2. The Varsity will meet Dartmouth this afternoon at 2 o'clock on the Divinity courts, while the Jayvees will battle the Andover outfit which downed...
While no one wishes anything but success to the publicans whose duty it is to see that no liquor taxes go uncollected, the program of the A.T.U. smacks of nothing so much as simple faith in Pussyfoot Johnson's lamented Prohibition system: the use of crude strong-arm tactics as the remedy for basic ills. Bootlegging is admittedly profitable because liquor is scarce and taxes thereon out of all proportion to the value of the commodity. Yet not only does the A.T.U. plan to keep taxes at existing skyscraper levels, but by wiping out illegitimate distilleries, it will also reduce...
Dick Walsh pitched the full game and showed up fairly well, although his arm was bothering him part of the time. Frank Owen was batting for another .750 average, the second in two successive games. George Blackwood was back again at the catcher's position...
When the story opens the professor has just succeeded in seducing (by a lecture!) the American lady, which richly compensates him for the inferiority he feels because of a crippled arm. As the book closes, the professor is fervently praising God for his escape from...
Four biggest arms makers are England's Vickers-Armstrong, France's Schneider-Creusot, Germany's Krupp, Czechoslovakia's Skoda. Their interlocking connections (which Authors Engelbrecht & Hanighen show in charts) are almost incredibly complex; the only real competitor any of them has is peace. Says Author Seldes: "It is a recurrent paradox of the international gun trade that nations arm their enemies." During the War German scrap iron at the rate of 150,000 tons a month was shipped into France, via Switzerland. French bauxite (aluminum) found its way into the construction of German submarines; German barbed...