Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...storm with a lower stroke was partially responsible for the almost immediate falling back of the Harvard boat to third place. Penn was already far in the wake. The crews reached the finish with the Big Red a length in the lead and Harvard and Syracuse second in a dead heat. The Quaker and the Cornell shells immediately started to sink while the foundering oarsmen made for the launches. By constant bailing, the Syracuse and Crimson eights managed to keep the water from lapping at the gunwales inboard until they reached the boat house...
...pacts with Herr Hitler are not finding a very good market at the present moment. The Scandinavian public is dead set against them. Even when the British a few weeks ago suggested they might guarantee the Scandinavian countries' independence, they showed no enthusiasm. They want neutrality, not pacts. Obviously, all four would have liked to reply to Germany in unison: "Thank you, Herr Hitler, but we don't want any pacts...
...Geneva the League of Nations Council, holding its 105th meeting, was confronted with only minor or dead problems. Real doings took place in hushed hotel suites where British Foreign Seretary Lord Halifax and the Soviet delegate Ivan Maisky, also Ambassador at London haggled over the terms of the projected Anglo-French-Soviet mutual aid pact, with the prospect ever brighter that Britain would eventually accede to the Soviet demand for an out-&-out military alliance...
Outward Bound. Successful revival of Sutton Vane's dramatic story of people who discover they are dead (TIME...
Whether she's living or whether she's dead...