Word: burring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...both fronts skirmishes were going on all week long. Italy's southern army under General Graziani retreated 100 miles from the position it had taken at Daggah Bur and Sassa Baneh fortnight ago to consolidate communications, then advanced again on the same towns...
...Dutra's win again emphasized the transition of U. S. golf from an Anglo-Saxon monopoly to a polyglot profession. Ex-Champion Sarazen's extraction is Italian, ex-Champion Burke's is Lithuanian (Bur-kowski). Champion Dutra's forbears were, with the Espinosas. among California's early Spanish settlers. At 6 ft. 3 in. and 230 Ib., Dutra is one of the game's hugest players. Abroad last year with the Ryder Cup team he was caricatured as King Kong...
Last week Denver got what it has wanted for 75 years when Chicago, Bur- lington & Quincy announced that after June11, it would extend the schedule of its crack Chicago-Denver Aristocrat through the Moffat Tunnel over the Dotsero Cut-off to Salt Lake City and over the Western Pacific to San Francisco...
whose names all begin with Bu and two end in ch, leaving but one letter different in the names of the latter. The first and last of the three have the first three letters, Bur, the same...
...statement was a logical and moderate one, in line with our traditional policy in Eastern matters. It gave a dignity to bur diplomacy which had been sadly lacking before. So much the more unfortunate is this apparent effort to back it up with an aggressive display of force. Whether by design or coincidence, the administration is likely to cause another violent nationalistic reaction in Japan. Memory is all too clear about the effect on Japanese public opinion of the League's "firm stand" in November, and the anger caused by garbled accounts of Secretary Stimson's remarks on the last...