Word: brownings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This will be just another meet for the Ulenmen as they speed preparations for their league debut against the Pennsylvania Quakers next Saturday. Victims of a 38 to 37 upset at the hands of the powerful Brown Bruins, the Crimson tankers have been practicing steadily during the examination period and should not be stale despite the competition layoff...
With a rearranged lineup, the wrestling team will swing into action against the Brown grapplers tomorrow at Providence to try to chalk up their second win of the year. In the past two matches, the team has defeated Tufts with a complete sweep, and has lost by one point to a more experienced Princeton team...
...water, residents must be satisfied with condensed sea water, with the trickles from artesian wells, one 1,500 feet deep, or with the stagnant liquid in rain-wells which ancient Persians are supposed to have cut in the rocks. Colonials' rum-punches are earthy and their cats red-brown from omnipresent dust. Malaria and other tropical diseases are common. Only industries are manufacture of salt and cigarets (which are sold very cheaply under pirated labels). Such sports as camel-racing can be indulged in when it is not too hot. The port, a strategic and impregnable naval base (sometimes...
...from the beginning. Chile's party, said the Congress, was not in the least like Germany's. True, one of the three Nacista members of the Chamber of Deputies is part German. Admittedly, the party supported storm troops. There was no denying that members occasionally wore greyish-brown shirts and overseas caps. Indeed, they did go about saluting each other with raised arms. Sometimes it is a fact, they drilled. Yes, they once took to the streets to fight the Communists. No good Nacista would deny that he was fanatically nationalistic. There was even a bare possibility that...
...Eugene Houdry was the fils in Houdry & Fils, Parisian steelmakers. His hobby was auto racing. One day a racing driver excitedly showed him a bottle of gasoline which he said a pharmacist in Nice had derived from lignite ("brown coal"). France, which has lignite but little petroleum, was then in the throes of an oil-shortage scare, and 29-year-old Eugene Houdry caught the driver's excitement...