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...equivalent of Jesse Owens and No. 2 celebrity of the Games turned out to be a ponderous 17-year-old from Rotterdam named Hendrika Wilhelmina Mastenbroek, who won both the 100 and 400-metre free style races, helped her team win the 400-metre relay. Because her pretty teammate, Dina Senff, took the 100-metre backstroke title, little Holland won every swimming event on the program except the 200-metre breast stroke which went to Japan. The high-powered U. S. swimmers got no first prizes...
Died. Assan Dina, Hindu owner of Mont Blanc Observatory; suddenly at Cruseilles, Switzerland. He had begun the construction of a larger observatory on Mont Saleve, France, to cost $6,250,000, to be equipped with the world's largest telescope (diameter 105 inches...
...Assan Dina, Hindu millionaire, and his wife, formerly Miss Mary Wallace-Shillito, of Cincinnati, Ohio, will give to France the largest observatory in the world with a telescope more powerful than that on Mount Wilson, Calif...
...meaning, and words in current use today retain the meaning which the group of letters gave." And accepting the tradition which exists in Ireland, in Greece and in Egypt of an ancient alphabet of sixteen letters the author seeks to prove that the well-known nursery catch, "Ena dena, dina, do, catch a nigger by the toe, etc.," is this lost alphabet, preserved by generations of children, who repeated it almost subconsciously, perfectly oblivious to the "depth of knowledge buried in the apparently meaningless words...
...ROAST TURKEY.(d) Repeat rapidly several times (not while eating), Dido dina du dos d'un dindon dodu...