Word: arming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...stocky, 34-year-old French Minister of Education Jean Zay last week started up 15,782 foot Mt. Blanc. Early entrants for the stiff mountain climb had included Vice Premier Camille Chautemps and Minister of Public Works Ludovic Oscar Frossard (later resigned) (see above). M. Chautemps, however, wrenched an arm at tennis, dropped out. M. Frossard took a test climb, returned puffing, decided to fly over Mt. Blanc instead...
...Governor Hugh White of Mississippi felt a sharp pain shoot through his chest one afternoon last week, followed by pain in his left arm. Specialists bedded him, treated him for severe cardiac fatigue. Two days later he had the comfort of hearing that the Legislature, in special session, had passed in almost the form he wished it his "dream plan": lifting of all State, county and district (but not municipal) taxes from some 133,000 Mississippi homes valued at not more than...
...Dodge, in Georgian Bay, near Little Current, Ontario. Honeymooning with his two-weeks' bride, a former telephone operator and daughter of a tugboat captain, Heir Dodge picked up a stick of dynamite in the garage at his camp. It exploded, cracked his skull and tore off his left arm. With friends' help, his wife, seriously hurt herself, put him in a speedboat, started to drive to a doctor across the bay. Pain-crazed, Daniel Dodge jumped overboard, drowned...
Whenever Sherlock Holmes was worn out by a particularly baffling case, he gave himself a shot in the arm. In Chicago last week, the long arm of small-town law received a hypo in the form of a unique summer-school course-the Crime Seminar of Northwestern University's Law School...
...appointment, when it finally came, caused a stir among baseball fans. The Cubs were in third place in the National League pennant race, had just won seven games in a row before losing to the resurgent Dodgers, and their $185,000 investment in Dizzy Dean's pitching arm had paid its first dividend (after a two-month moratorium) in the form of a four-hit victory over the Boston Bees...