Word: column
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lines open. Forty thousand more men were mobilized, bringing Sweden's armed forces to 150,000. The fortress of Boden, at the head of the Gulf of Bothnia, was reinforced with reserves. Here was the greatest Russian threat to Sweden, marked by the steady progress of a Russian column across Finland toward Tornio on the Swedish-Finnish frontier. Some 4,000 Swedes volunteered for the Finnish Army and several hundred of them last week managed to cross the frontier and join up. Even more important were the supplies rushed to Finland by Sweden's great Bofors armament works...
Last year in this column we objected to the fact that Harvard's musical groups hardly ever appear in Cambridge. The Perian Sodality, with four local concerts this year, is setting an example which, if followed by other organizations, would remedy the situation. The program which the orchestra will play tomorrow evening is exemplary also in the selection of the music, for it gives us an opportunity to hear works from a much talked of, but little known lecture the orchestral music of Bach and Handle...
...Broun put an end to his feud with McCoy Howard by signing a new contract with the New York Post, to take effect day after his World-Telegram contract expires next week. The Post, in place of Scripps-Howard's United Feature Syndicate, will distribute Broun's column to other papers. A sportswriter before he became a columnist, Broun will also turn out stories on baseball and racing for the Post...
...readers. From the Post he admits that he will get "considerably less" in salary, plus whatever he nets on syndicate sales. The Post's circulation is only 252,145, compared to the World-Telegram's 414,759. And some papers that now use his column will undoubtedly drop...
...point where a collar button usually rests. Through this hole larynx-less patients (mostly men) do their breathing. But they cannot talk aloud, for their breath gushes up in a storm from their lungs, whistles out through their necks, and first requirement for speech is a vibrating column of air in the throat. They sometimes manage to produce a squeaky whisper, using only their mouths and palates...