Word: columning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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That night Correspondent Ames spent in a field with the Italian advance guard. Early next morning came a radio message from Marshal Badoglio, bogged down miles back in the middle of his motorized column: The occupation of Addis Ababa must take place at once, regardless of squabbles over the exact order of precedence, because foreigners' lives were in danger following the flight of Haile Selassie...
...clock this afternoon Harvard will attempt to get back into the winning column in a return game with the strong Dean Academy nine...
...Stern of the New York Post. Publisher Stern heartily despises William Randolph Hearst. Twice before he has used his front page to give his fellow-publisher unmerciful Hayings, once on the New Deal, once on the Lindberghs' self-exile. Last week aggressive Publisher Stern spread a blistering two-column editorial on the Post's front page accusing the Mirror of a blatant fabrication...
...attempt to get back into the win column after last weekend's disastrous trip to Princeton, the Varsity tennis team will journey to Columbia tomorrow for a match with the supposedly weak New York netmen. The presence of both Jim Thackers, at number one, and Gordie Robertson at number 5, unable to participate in the Bengal match due to divisional, should boost the team considerably...
This week Italian troops were entering their eighth month of active warfare in Ethiopia. Addis Ababa was still 140 miles ahead of the nearest Italian column. Emperor Haile Selassie was neither killed nor captured. Crown Prince Asfa Wassan had returned to Addis Ababa to take over the Government under orders from his father. Remnants of the Imperial Guard drifting back to the Capital still had their rifles, bags of dried peas and the capacity to put up a fight. In the south things were different. The bloodiest battle of the entire War was raging last week around a collection...