Word: crowings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Charles Edison finally had the Navy award prizes for the best U. S. mosquito and subchaser designs (TIME, April 10), later let contracts to U. S. manufacturers for four 110-to 174-foot chasers eight 59-to 81-foot mosquitoes. Last week the Navy's Brass Hats ate crow. They conceded that: 1) their civilian Secretary was right, and 2) they now had to turn to the British for the best mosquito boats...
...Missouri, the Stark-Clark feud boiled up toward Hatfield-McCoy temperature. Governor Lloyd Crow Stark, New Deal 1940 candidate for Senator, and present Senator Bennett Champ Clark began active electioneering for control of the Missouri delegation to the 1940 Democratic convention...
...Champaign, Ill., on the same field where famed Red Grange scored five touchdowns against Michigan 15 years ago, an Illinois team, smarting under Michigan's Coach Crisler's recent boast that Tom Harmon is a greater back than Grange, made Crisler eat crow. Playing inspired football, Bob Zuppke's Illini, who had not won a game this season, bottled Harmon so tightly that he scored only one touchdown, toppled mighty Michigan from the undefeated ranks...
...director, plans to encourage local art and architecture, Indian art. Conspicuous in the opening-night crowd were the feathers and buck-kin pants of Acee Blue Eagle, whose Buffalo Hunt was also on display. Absent were Negroes. One Thursday a month will be et aside as Jim Crow day at Philbrook...
...track down. She is one of Germany's three pocket battleships.* Limited under the Treaty of Versailles to "coast defense" vessels not exceeding 10,000 tons, the ingenious Germans effected economies such as substituting welding for riveting, alloys for heavy metal, then armed the vessels to the crow's nests...