Word: divinge
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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About 3 p. m. came an infernal five minutes which seemed to Madrid citizens like hours. Out of low, heavy clouds which had concealed their approach, four big White planes thundered to bomb the slum district of Madrid while three small White pursuit ships strafed the streets with machine guns...
By this time Quebec cohorts of Vice, in the persons of the city's taxi drivers, had gone violently to the rescue of girls and madams, swinging monkey wrenches and auto jacks in their onslaughts upon Virtue's students. In the thick of the battle Quebec patrons of...
Favored to sweep the swimming races at Berlin as they did at Los Angeles four years ago, the Japanese last week did nothing of the sort. When the six men's events were over, U. S. swimmers had won the 100-metre backstroke (Adolph Kiefer), 400-metre free style...
Netherlands' girl athletes have not yet outclassed the U. S. in events which require grace as well as brawn. Bright blonde Dorothy Poynton Hill last week retained her title at platform diving. Springboard diving championship went to Marjorie Gestring, 13-year-old Los Angeles schoolgirl.
One of the commonest forms of preparation for a career as a champion athlete is a sickly childhood. Diver Jump's debility reached the stage where her doctor had to advise her to take up swimming when she was 11. She began high diving a year or so ago...