Word: basely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fortified Spain's Canary Islands which lie some 60 miles west of Africa on the air route from Europe to Brazil. Journalist Lorenzo Sosa and other Spanish Loyalist refugees from the Islands turned up with eyewitness accounts. Some told of being put to work on an air base at Las Palmas, said German cruisers had surveyed island harbors...
...York City College's Dr. Ernest Victor Hollis, author of Philanthropic Foundations and Higher Education (Columbia University Press) told eastern university business officers in Pittsburgh this week that the trend is toward a broader base of college support. Most colleges, if they are to survive, said he, will in future have to depend on 1) tax funds or 2) numerous modest gifts from tax-evaders...
Feeling ran high in the Eliot-Dunster game, and hard, base running almost resulted in several players being put hors de combat. In the absence of ace pitcher Madey, Joe Stern was called on for mound duty for the Elephant, while the Funsters used Roger Kinnincutt. Red Lee of Eliot led the Hitters with two doubles. The Funsters had the bases full and only one out with the score tied in the last of the seventh, but snappy Eliot fielding forced the game...
...present understand. If these mass-demonstrations were on a scale sufficiently large, they would suggest that democracy has something to say. The question of an embargo would soon take care of itself if the phrase "Made in Germany" became a general synonym for all that is contemptible and base...
...year his older brother was elected mayor and he promptly moved in with him as secretary. Although Brother Joseph modestly described himself as a flag officer to Brother Frank, the admiral, the impression got about that Brother Joseph really ran things. To him went credit for the new air base, supply warehouses and improved anchorages which have made Los Angeles one of the Navy's favorite ports. He also got credit for other things: rumor was that he and Del Gado had smuggled $250,000 into Mexico in a false-bottomed car for safe keeping. Last week...