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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...strong Dudley team came through in the pinches yesterday afternoon to hand a 12-0 beating to the Adams eleven, while Lowell although outgained on the ground and in the air, took a close contest from Eliot, 6-0, on one long...
Adams came close enough to worry the Commuters in the final frame when, with three minutes to go, Chub Lee, backfield ace, returned a punt 25 yards to the Dudley three yard stripe. At that point the Dudley line stiffened and threw back the Gold Coasters. Bill Healey, star tackle as well as a dependable punter, kicked out of danger, and before Adams could attack again the game was over...
HELSINGFORS, Finland--Soviet Russian troops numbering close to 25,000 began marching into Estonia tonight to occupy the strategic islands of Oesel and Dagee and set up military garrisons under provisions of the now Soviet Estonian pact of mutual assistance...
...extensible rear bumper which a parking motorist can crank out like a bustle to a distance of several feet, to prevent another car from parking too close behind...
...question which needs immediate investigation, Dr. Leet said, is whether the new wave form is mingled with the waves close to the sources of earthquakes, which do greatest damage. It may be found important to modify designs of earthquake-proof structures, to meet ground conditions set up by the wave...