Word: breaks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...move against Germany's "impregnable" Westwall (or Limes Line*) was the 100-mi, stretch from Lauterbourg on the Rhine, northwest to the Moselle River (see map). Here the German border and the Westwall guarding it depart from the Rhine, to run across hilly vineyard and forest country. To break through the Wall here does not involve the added difficulty of crossing the Rhine. And neutral Luxembourg guards the French left flank. Last week the lower reaches of the Maginot Line and Westwall, facing each other across the Rhine from Lauterbourg south to the Swiss border, lay quiet except...
...around to all these exploits Superman not only has to fly through the air, but to swim faster than a ship can travel, to break through brick walls and leap skyscrapers. To keep his identity a secret he adopts another one: when not supermanhandling the wicked he is a bespectacled cub reporter named Clark Kent. The pretty female reporter is in love with Clark Kent and the beautiful foreign princess is in love with Superman. How to satisfy them both is a problem for Superman's creators...
Since that time many able women golfers have swept over U. S. fairways-in swishing skirts, in hobble skirts, in knickerbockers, in shorts-have gradually whittled their scores: first to break 100 in national competition was New York's Beatrix Hoyt, thrice U. S. champion (1896-97-98); first to break 90 was Boston's Margaret Curtis, who won the national title three times (1907-11-12); first to break 80 was Providence's Glenna Collett, national champion six times...
...Betty Hicks of Long Beach, Calif., golf fans' new-found darling, who, despite her no lb., her 18 years and the fact that she could not break 100 a year ago, reached the semi-finals by mowing down three titans, Mrs. William Hockenjos, Fay Crocker and Maureen Orcutt-all pre-tournament favorites...
...which the San Francisco Fair must pay off to break even is only about 10% of the $50,000,000 invested in the Exposition. There are few figures to show whether the exhibitors who spent an estimated $13,000,000, the State which gave $5,000,000, and the Federal Government which spent $1,500,000 will get their money's worth. But there are data which indicate what the contributors of $6,000,000 to the Exposition corporation are getting in the form of business...