Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Calcutta-Lahore express plowed stolidly through one night last' week on its 1,100-mile journey. In the morning, hundreds of natives jampacked in the first five cars dozed fitfully on for they had had little sleep. In the two rear cars European passengers rode in greater comfort...
...German Davis Cup tennis team, headed by Baron Gottfried von Cramm, this year's runner-up at Wimbledon: the European Zone final matches against Czechoslovakia's team; in Berlin. Germany this week plays the U. S. for the right to meet Great Britain, Davis Cup defender, in the challenge round. C. Elroy Robinson, of San Francisco's Olympic Club: the half-mile run at the World Labor Athletic Carnival on Randalls Island, N. Y.; in 1 min. 49.6 sec., breaking Ben Eastman's accepted world's record...
...John's should prove a stimulating challenge. By last week President-elect Barr had rounded up four bright young faculty-men from Chicago and one from Oxford, where he once studied as a Rhodes Scholar. The Barr-Hutchins liberal arts ideal Educator Hutchins described before sailing for a European vacation last week: "St. John's is an excellent place to try out the idea of educating people to live instead of to earn a living. There will be emphasis on the classics - not on the languages, but on great books. We want to get away from present liberal...
...either bought by British manufacturers or made up for export by pukka ("reliable") balers. Most famed British name in the jute trade is that of Sir David Yule, an extraordinary Scotsman who died in 1928 after making a fortune of $100,000,000 in Calcutta. His dislike of things European relented enough to let him marry an Englishwoman but never to live in England. Since his death, plump, inscrutable Lady Yule and Daughter Gladys ("the richest girl in England") have lived quietly at St. Albans cultivating their private zoo. Their friend, the Duke of Windsor, borrowed the Yule yacht Nahlin...
...their stolid appearance, "were far more acute than Englishmen." Except for "the smell peculiar to all things Russian-rotten leather or duck," she found them more attractive than they were painted. Spanish bullfights (where she admired the bulls more than the matadors) were much more interesting than European picture galleries. A Rubens subject was "nauseating because she looked as if she would melt into thick fat if she were squeezed." Another painter gave his girls eyes "like rotting goose-berries." French women were "very fidgety" but she took careful notes on what they could teach Japanese women about coquetry. From...