Word: bitting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the new Austro-German tariff pact so much to the forefront in the news of the world the Vagabond feels that he would do well to polish up a bit on the historical background of the present controversy. He can see in the unseemly haste which France has displayed in protesting the new agreement a recurrence of that dread of German power which she felt so acutely prior to 1914. Perhaps that dread was not unbased. The Vagabond proposes to hear Professor Artz discuss the last years of the heyday of German Imperialism this morning. The place is Harvard...
...however, when we turn to the contests with Yale that the record is a bit marred. Counting the two meetings with the Blue in varsity hockey and polo there were 21 in all. Out of this number the Yale teams were returned the victor no less than 18 times with the Crimson coming out ahead on only three occasions. These were in varsity squash and wrestling and in second team hockey. Besides winning twice in both varsity hockey and polo the varsity and Freshman Yale teams won also in basketball, swimming, fencing, and boxing. The Crimson also lost in Freshman...
...Moines, Iowa Sirs: Congratulations. ... I enjoyed the performance tremendously. I thought it very well presented. It sparkled and sizzled with dramatic interest-particularly that section of your broadcast devoted to the story of the sale of the New York World. When this story was first announced I was a bit dubious that any radio presentation could portray the news of the day in a fashion as interesting, alive and fascinating as you handled these matters in the columns of TIME. But I see that once again you have succeeded in tack- ling a difficult task and making it register with...
...Buenos Aires last week was a most creditable performance. Featured was British transport apparatus of all sorts: cars, motorboats, planes, railway equipment. English jam, rolls, chocolate, pickles and crackers were also prominent. Wondering South Americans strolled through a "mimic London," admired the Tower, London Bridge, and something called "A Bit of Piccadilly...
...with the cinematic art of Europe, an art free from the sullying trends of Hollywood commercialism so the critics say, but before he goes to see "La Colliere de la Reine" he is going to get his set of Dumas down from the top shelf and polish up a bit on the "Queen's Necklace" in the mother tongue...