Word: band
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...rifles, hauled machine guns and field pieces, even drove tanks up to the frontier, where they were confiscated. They were determined not to let General Franco capture any war weapons. At one point alone 4,000 were crossing the French border every hour. At another point a Loyalist Army band played patriotic Spanish airs while the bedraggled and defeated army crossed into France. Of the 200,000 men left in the Loyalist Army. 150,000 were expected to reach France and safety, 50,000 would probably be captured or surrender before they got there. The refugees, interned in concentration camps...
...somewhat abated, but several games were played. Yale was shoved further into the league's cellar as a result of a defeat at the hands of the Big Red of Cornell. But more important than this game was the Yale-Dartmouth clash at Hanover in which an inspired band of Elis made things exceedingly not for the favored Big Green, and were only nosed out 34 to 32 by Moose Dudis' last-minute basket...
...member of an old-fashioned German street-band...
Bublitchki (Ziggy Elman; Bluebird), novelty-of-the-month. Jewish folk song by Benny Goodman's band (minus the brass section), featuring a riffling trumpet chorus by Mr. Elman...
...last week turned up a neat new wrinkle: a battery-powered radio transmitter sealed in a steel drum attached to a lance which is hooked to the floating carcass after a whale has been killed by harpooners in small boats. It will broadcast on the 600-to-800-metre band an automatically recurring signal so that a mother ship with a direction-finding receiver can track down and recover the catch. Since few household radio receivers tune much higher than 560 metres, the chances of an ordinary radio listener tuning in a dead whale will be slight...