Word: baseness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Government supporters shouted themselve hoarse. Business leaders whooped with joyous relief. Telegrams praising the Prime Minister's "wise statesmanship" and "high courage" poured into No. 10 Downing Street. Stock Exchange prices, especially of base metals, shot upward. Neville Chamberlain had no cause to regret his "commonsense attitude...
...spectacled Pitcher Bill Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox, who was barely good enough to make the team last year, pitched the first one in the major leagues since August 31, 1935. Rarest and most satisfying kind of no-hit game is one in which no batter reaches first base, of which there are six on record in the major leagues. In Pitcher Dietrich's no-hit game, which the White Sox won, 8-to-0, three members of the St. Louis Browns reached first base-two on walks, one on an infield error...
...North Pole last week it rained, and the three big Soviet planes beside the base camp sank slightly into the mushy surface of the ice floe. The fourth plane, which came down 40 miles away fortnight ago, waited till the weather lifted, then joined the main party, bringing to 35 the number of Russians encamped serenely at the top of the world to investigate scientific phenomena and build a base for a transarctic airline (TIME, May 31). Weather reports were reaching Moscow four times daily and at week's end hirsute Dr. Otto Tulyevitch Schmidt's staff...
...Moscow, Dictator Joseph Stalin was pleased to designate Flyer Sigismund Levanevsky as the first man, when the time comes, to try the flight from Moscow to San Francisco via the North Pole base. Lithe, taciturn pilot Levanevsky is a boot-black's son who fought with the Red Guard in the War, first made news when he flew to the rescue of U. S. Flyer Jimmie Mattern in Siberia in 1933. Levanevsky later helped rescue the members of the wrecked Chelyuskin expedition. Two years ago he was forced back while attempting a non-stop flight from Moscow...
...George de Bothezat, consultant on mathematical problems in plane design who lives near the Army air base at Dayton, Ohio...