Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Abraham Lincoln and George Washington battalions of U. S. volunteers fighting for the Leftists were withdrawn last week for a rest from Teruel, where 700 U. S. citizens and 300 Canadians were revealed to have been fighting on New Year's Eve. The Karl Marx battalion was still fighting at Teruel last week, and volunteer casualties were indicated by Valencia dispatches saying the Internationals required 525 "replacements...
...will be remembered that at this time last year the Stubbsmen were undefeated on the eve of their departure to engage Montreal and McGill. They envisioned becoming the first winners of the International Intercollegiate Hockey League. Only McGill was able to prevent them from copping the championship...
...eve of a battle, fought periodically ever since the law was enacted under the Curley regime, opposing forces led chiefly by educators and labor leaders, are not confident of victory. Led by President Conant and prominent members of the faculties of Harvard and almost every college in the State, the drive was checked by the veto of Governor Hurley last year...
...That every Christmas Eve Colonel Green passed in Manhattan for 15 years, he meandered up Fifth Avenue from the old Waldorf-Astoria to Central Park, slipping a $5 gold piece to each policeman...
Squirming in sequins on a Hollywood dressing-room chaise longue, Mae West made her first public statement on her notorious Adam & Eve travesty (TIME, Dec. 27; Jan. 24). Of NBC and Advertising Agents J. Walter Thompson she said: "They were no gentlemen. They let a lady down...