Word: dashings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago Italy's military position was about what it had been for a month. On the southern front Italian columns had made a spectacular dash to Wadara, then withdrew to Noghelli while food and munitions were catching up with them. Harar, overlooking Ethiopia's only railway and onetime headquarters of the Ethiopian forces opposing Italy's southern armies, had been bombed to ruins. In the north, after the great battle of Enderta and its smashing sequel at Amba Alaji (TIME, Feb. 24 et seq.), all Italy expected to see the Fascist troops sweep bravely on down...
...Adolph Kiefer of Chicago, ablest backstroke swimmer in the U. S., won the 150-yd. dash by half the length of the pool, without hurrying broke his own world's record by 3 sec., described his performance into a microphone before getting out of the water...
NEUTRAL FOUR STOP SIXTY TWO DEGREES STOP PURPLE DASH BLUE SIXTY SEVEN STOP TWENTY FOUR DEGREES STOP BLUE FIFTY EIGHT STOP FOURTEEN DEGREES...
Both pictures at the University this week are fairly riotous, although the feature number adds a dash of satire to the run of rollicking fun. In "The Ghost Goes West," Robert Donat, last of the clan of Glourie, is forced to sell his ancestral castle at the moment Jean Parker happens along. He persuades her father (Eugene Pallette) a multimillionaire chain store tycoon, to buy the fortress and transplant it to the bonny banks of Florida. But unfortunately, a jolly philandering Glourie disgraced himself two centuries before, and was doomed to haunt the castle to take revenge on the enemy...
Also playing on the second line, Johnny Erhard scored Winthrop's other tally towards the end of the last frame after a sole dash through the Eli defenders...