Word: branca
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Samuel Adams '37 defeated Verge 10-15, 16-14, 16-14, 15-14; Manuel Johnson '37 defeated Manly 18-17, 15-9, 15-11; Rolf Kaltenborn '37 defeated Barry 15-5, 8-15, 15-17, 15-8, 15-11; Branca (T) defeated John S. Thompson, Jr. '37 9-15, 15-9, 15-8, 16-13; Lawrence Ross '37 defeated Merrill...
...hung with black velvet and flickering with candlelight, the body lay in a huge sarcophagus. In the murk of the nave, 2,000 Brazilians per hour filed slowly past day & night. The day of the funeral was a national holiday. Laurel leaves were strewn solidly on the Avenida Rio Branca for 720 ft., the distance of the hero's first flight. Artillery sounded the body into the grave, a five-minute Brazil-wide silence followed. Sea & land planes flew over in squadrons. At the grave was a great monument topped by a winged figure built by the dead...