Word: bitted
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Roewer and Calfee are both Seniors and may break into the lineup if they can acquire a bit more consistency. Calfee has started slowly and needs more work to bring his game up to its peak; Roewer has a long tee shot but he too wild. With more practice, either of these men could press Elbel and Dickerman for their positions...
...After a bit of sweet music by Jack Hill and his band of eight Harlemites, Chairman Kuhn started the ball rolling by introducing the master of ceremonies, George C. MacKinnon, a columnist for the "Record" and prominent song writer...
...helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
Such was perhaps the most successful bit of peace propaganda* attempted as an estimated 1,000,000 U. S. undergraduates observed annual "Peace Day" on Adolf Hitler's birthday. While most cheered collective security and President's Roosevelt's peace appeal to the dictators, on many a campus isolationists held rival meetings...
...Chinese for "A Little Bit Of Something Precious") was the first giant panda ever to reach U. S. shores alive. To capture it, Mrs. William Harvest Harkness Jr. spent $20,000 and many months in remote Tibet, two years ago gave the baby giant panda to Chicago's Brookfield Zoo. Mrs. Harkness introduced Su-Lin as a "she," and Chicago's zoologists saw no reason to change the designation...