Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, stunting for more points, he too came a cropper. In a spectacular spinning dive, his left wing snapped off. He tossed back the cowl covers, tried to wriggle out of the cockpit. Centrifugal motion held him fast. Finally leaning far out over the nose, he grasped a metal indicator, wrenched himself free, parachuted into a birch tree...
...body bones are badly crushed and the back of the skull is bashed in, but the skull is otherwise in excellent shape, the jaws and teeth almost complete. Said Dr. Hrdlicka: "We had been hoping, but hardly daring to hope, for some such discovery, and now this young Soviet archeologist has done it. It shows that Neanderthal Man was widely spread over the Old World. For the first time it gives us evidence of a culture extending clear across Europe to the Far East...
...removed from the balcony at Buckingham Palace when he tried to heave a pillow over, last week raised another ruckus. When his parents left for the wedding of Princess Irene of Greece and the Duke of Spoleto in Florence, he wanted to go too, had to be respectfully carried back into the palace by a footman...
...squall struck Lake Couchiching near his summer home, capsizing a canoeist, Humorist Stephen Leacock set out to the rescue in his motor launch with Caretaker Jack Kelly & Mrs. Kelly. As the launch pulled away from the dock, Mrs. Kelly fainted. Dr. Leacock put back to the dock and Mrs. Kelly came to. Once more Dr. Leacock set forth to the rescue. Once more Mrs. Kelly swooned. After putting her ashore once & for all, Humorist Leacock reached the half-drowned canoeist hauled him aboard...
When Hitler took Austria, more than a year ago, Cardinal Innitzer heiled and voted Ja with the best of them. He was, indeed, credited with helping end the Schuschnigg regime, by letting the Austrian Catholic press back Arthur Seyss-Inquart, Nazi go-between. Many Catholic observers, nonetheless, believe Cardinal Innitzer is no timeserver but a sincere, bewildered wrong-guesser who believed that Catholicism could honestly come to terms with Hitlerism. Praising the Cardinal's attempts at conciliation, the Commonweal said last week of his experience at Konigsbrunn: "It is one of the few classic tragedies in our melodramatic...