Word: catchings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tastes decide for him, the decision must be made--whether to regard youth (which means university career) as a gift which must be enjoyed, or as a fateful threshold to life. Only the very lucky ones can have it both ways, can dance in the Spring and reap a catch crop harvest in the Autumn...
Seven sailors aboard the Soviet warned that they would surely catch it from Moscow if they cut that rope. Nine sailors were for cutting it. The rope was cut. Aboard the blazing tanker 27 lives were lost but the Soviet stood by at a safe distance all night, picked up next morning two members of the tanker's crew clinging to an overturned life boat...
...first occasion that one plane had ever captured both Bendix and Thompson Races. Watching the big white plane whiz past, unhappy Colonel Turner consoled himself with: "It's always better to get down and walk than win a race when the plane's about to catch fire...
...Presbyterian Church gave Dr. Buswell the break they did. He should have gotten the verdict handed to Dr. Machen-suspension. Then our personal feud would have stood: 1-to-1. You see, Dr. Buswell had me suspended, without even giving me a hearing (he was in a hurry to catch a train) just because they discovered I smoked a pipe in my own apartment, while attending Wheaton College...
...Hutton (Countess Haugwitz); in an automobile accident; near Albona, Spain. Seriously injured in the accident was Baroness Maud Thyssen, 28, reported estranged from her husband Baron Heinrich Thyssen. Prince Alexis was rushing Bareness Thyssen from the home of his sister Roussadara, wife of Painter José Maria Sert, to catch a train. Found by newshawks in Germany and informed of her onetime husband's death, Countess Haugwitz said: "I am terribly, terribly sorry. I am not surprised. I always felt something like this would happen. He drove like...