Word: briton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three days later, Captain Eyston tried again, succeeded in breaking his old record officially with an average speed of 345.49 m.p.h. First to congratulate him was his rival, Fur Broker John Cobb, another 200-lb. Briton, who was on the sidelines last week-waiting for his inning. John Cobb's car has a detachable aluminum body that weighs only 500 lb., can be dented by a man's fist and is placed over the driver like the cover of a roasting pan. Cooped in his pan, Driver Cobb hopes to go 400 m.p.h...
...Bespectacled Sydney Wooderson, 124-Ib. Briton who holds the world's record for a mile (outdoors): a new world's record for a half-mile (1:49.2); at Hotspur Park, London. On the way, Runner Wooderson also broke the record for 800 metres...
...Only one Briton, Earl Baldwin of Bewdley, has $1,250,000 to administer at his discretion for the purpose of drawing the Mother Country and other parts of the British Commonwealth even more closely together. This huge sum was given by an anonymous British donor as a thank offering for Mr. Baldwin's masterly success in keeping Mrs. Simpson off the throne of England. For some time, Lord Baldwin has been expected to make a tour of the British Dominions Beyond the Seas, to see about spending the $37,500 annual income from this Imperial Trust. But the Earl...
...Walker Cup matches. †still the No. 1 international event, played this week at famed St. Andrews on the Scottish coast. All golf enthusiasts are well aware that the nearest Great Britain has ever come to putting a dent in the Walker Cup was in 1932 at Brookline, when Briton Leonard Crawley hooked an iron shot to the spot where the big silver trophy was on display, knocked it off its pedestal. This year, however, Britons were talking about the "ascendancy of British amateur golf," were hoping for their first victory in ten tries...
...Czechoslovak Question boils down to how the aspirations of Adolf Hitler and his Sudeten stooge Henlein can be achieved without provoking a general European war. Such a war every leading Briton, whether Conservative, Liberal or Laborite wants to avoid at any cost, and thus in London last week Konrad Henlein was feted all but royally...