Word: captain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Polish radio, protesting that "the limit of Polish patience is very near," turned from straightforward reporting of developments to a satiric debunking of the provocative propaganda its people were hearing from over the border. One German radio report had it that a certain retired Polish Army captain had been leading forays against Germans in Poland. Polish officials investigated, found that the captain had been dead for two years. Commented the radio: "Such incidents could only, therefore, have been perpetrated by a ghost, for which the Polish authorities can hardly be held responsible...
...over her railings into the water swarmed 125 Jewish refugees, bundles & all, squealing and gurgling to set foot on their Promised Land. Police herded them, and 750 more still on board, into a concentration camp. They came from Germany and Czechoslovakia, said they had been sailing without a captain for eleven weeks...
...Jacob's ladder, followed by the two guardsmen. By this time the lion, bored and weary, had curled up behind a divan, was peacefully snoozing. It was not the moment for the niceties of hunting etiquette. Marksman Peskin was taking aim, when the Amazone's Captain Nyhoff nervously reminded him that a luckless shot in the gunpowder magazine might blast them all to kingdom-come. Swallowing his professional pride, Marksman Peskin inched closer, then fired. The bullet pinked the beast between the eyes, but miraculously he bounded across the deck, roaring like a pampero. Drawing a bead...
...grand triumph of the hockey season was the play of Captain Austic Harding. One of the greatest of all Harvard ice stars, Austic shone on a mediocre team. After a fair-to-middling season, the six captured the objective series with Yale by tying the Blues at New Haven, 3-3, and crushing them, 7-3, in Boston. Harding closed his collegiate career in a blaze of glory by tallying four goals in the final Yale game...
Prospects for the coming year are best in rowing. Only stroke Bill Rowe and Captain Dudley Talbot, workhorse number three sweep-swinger, will be lost from the eight which defeated Yale. The six returning oarsmen and coxswain; plus the wealth of material from the freshman and junior varsity squad, give a basis for optimism. This is the Olympic year in rowing, and Bolles and the oarsmen would like nothing better than to have the Crimson colors carried abroad