Word: dis
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...greeters who stood before the Rhode Island Capitol, men, women and plentiful numbers of children Franklin Roosevelt made the first of many speeches. Afterward, with Governor Green beside him, he drove the short dis tance to the place where Rhode Island ends and Massachusetts begins. There began one of the most frenzied .episodes of the campaign. From town to town the Democratic procession roared down broad highway No. 6, past great "Roosevelt & Curley" posters, sometimes racing three abreast. Questions of precedence were settled by stepping on the accelerator. Moving vans and beer trucks joined in the careening motorcade. Newshawks...
Died. William Frederic Badé, 63 famed Biblical scholar and archeologist who, by studying the Old Testament, dis covered the lost city of Mizpah ir Palestine in 1926; of a paralytic stroke in Berkeley, Calif...
...Dis time in the 45-yard hurdles, 5 4-5 seconds, equalled the meet record. For a moment Donovan of Dartmouth appeared to have caught the Crimson captain, but Green pulled away safely. In the 50-yard dash his beautiful start settled the race immediately, and the three Dartmouth men snatched the other points from Cornell's captain, Bob Linders...
...Naismith to Berlin to see the Olympic games next sum mer. Last week colleges which approved the idea added i? to the price of every basketball ticket. For his Berlin trip Inven tor Naismith, it was estimated, got $1,000. In 1891, Dr. Naismith hoped he had dis covered a pastime which would supply Y. M. C. A. boys with healthy exercise without encouraging roughness or bad tem per. Main feature of its extraordinary growth has been the tendency of basket ball to grow more violent every year. The winter's noisiest basketball row broke last week. Undefeated...
...Mitten. As Deputy Controller, Mayor Wilson had forced P. R. T. into the trusteeship and driven Dr. Mit ten's father out of the company. Well aware, therefore, was the Mayor that the Wilson-Mitten alliance might be interpreted as a step toward the return of dis credited Mitten Management...