Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like the U. S. team, the Englishmen have decided not to announce their lineup until the night before the first game (Sept. 6), The British leader, Capt. Charles H. Tremayne, a pleasant, soldierly person from Cornwall, will not put him self on his team. Last week on the eve of sailing he was cheerful if not confident. His most comforting thought: The British ponies are fast ones this time, not definitely outclassed by the expensive U. S. mounts as in the past...
Hungary and Rumania. At Budapest 70 Communist ring leaders were apprehended as a precautionary measure on the eve of Anti-War Day. Rumania, combed by police, netted 75 arrests...
...posters forbade Jews to use candles at the Wailing Wall the eve of the Fast. It forbade them to use mats for squatting during the Lamentations. It forbade them to celebrate Kiddush levana, the blessing of the new moon...
Pierre too, alas, loved (and in vain) a girl of his own home town. When Ann married his rival, Pierre cut a caper to hide his bleeding heart, took a job as soda-jerker to study character, saved his pay for his triumphal journey to Manhattan. On the eve of Pierre's departure old Tony appeared with a play he had written, read it to newly-married Ann. Tony's play, in Seven Keys to Baldpate style, goes on with the story from that point. It shows Pierre at the last minute sacrificing his career for Ann's sake, giving...
When on the eve of its public sale Macmillan Co. last month abruptly recalled from all book dealers Roosevelt, The Story of a, Friendship, by Owen Wister, (TIME, June 23) book reviewers were puzzled, historians baffled, as to what was the matter with the book. The publishers spoke vaguely of "certain corrections'' it was "necessary" to make but declined to explain what grave thing was forcing them to expend perhaps $100,000 on repaging, replating, reprinting, rebinding. Author Wister was in Europe. His family referred to "anonymous protests...