Word: beaches
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cease (TIME, Aug. 21); and 3) the general question of whether Italy will support Chancellor Dollfuss in his efforts to prevent a Nazi coup and union of Austria with Germany. Returning to shore, Rower Dollfuss and Steersman Mussolini were cheered good-humoredly by hundreds of Italian bathers on the beach...
Statesmen of small countries have to do undignified things. Last week small Austria's minuscule Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (he is less than five feet tall) flew to the Adriatic beach resort of Riccione for a conference with Premier Benito Mussolini, found him swimming offshore and disinclined to come in. For Chancellor Dollfuss to have waited abjectly on the beach would have been too undignified. He hired a small skiff, rowed out to where Il Duce was floating on his back...
...Jones Beach Lifeguard team: the national lifesaving tournament; at Jones Beach, L. I. Lifeguard Henry Holmes of Locust Valley, L. I. won the Medley swim, the dive for weights, the individual boat race...
...bright day last week two young girls from London rowed out from Leysdown Beach near Sheerness. England, after a child's ball that had floated away. Drifting a quarter-mile from shore they noticed near them a line of buoys that seemed to mark no reef, boat-mooring, fishnet or lobster-pot. As they gazed at this strange sight, five planes roaring out from the land circled over them. The girls suddenly crouched cowering in the bottom of their rowboat when the five began to dive on the innocent-seeming line of buoys, blazing away with machine guns. Four...
Authoress Willa Gather went to college (University of Nebraska, 1895). Authoress Edith Wharton did not.* Faced with these facts, young ladies contemplating authorship and undecided about going to college may well hesitate. Nor will Dr. Bertha Beach Tharp's educational analysis of eminent women, published in the August Scientific Monthly, be much more helpful. Of 1,000 women culled at random from Who's Who in America for 1929, one-third were authors, slightly less than one-half of whom had gone to college...