Word: goats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...four hours a day six days a week. The pupils live in hotels, assemble on a level field each morning, pass examinations in stemming and turning to pass from one class to the next. Having put St. Anton and Arlberg on the map, Hannes Schneider, son of a goat-herder, owns the biggest house in the village (13 rooms, two baths), which he built largely with his own hands. He supports the village band, its school, its hospital and, indirectly, its whole population. In 1930, Hannes Schneider visited Japan for one month at $10,000 to teach its royal family...
Died. Luigi Pirandello, 69, metaphysical playwright, member of the Italian Academy, winner of the 1934 Nobel Prize for Literature; of pneumonia; in Rome. A spry, goat-bearded poet, novelist and schoolteacher, he turned to playwriting at 50, achieved fame in 1920 with Six Characters in Search of an Author. Believing life "a very sad piece of buffoonery," he constructed his unrealistic plots to prove that "nothing is true and anything might be." At his death, unpredictable Playwright Pirandello was finishing a volume to be called Memories of My Involuntary Sojourn on Earth...
...more concrete. But all those who are more than occasional frequenters must have noticed certain strong, sporadic smells that pervade the place now and then, and raise speculations in the minds of the more imaginative epicures as to whether the hamburgers take perhaps a pinch of the traditional ingredient, goat's dung...
Crossing from the San Francisco side, the motorist ascends a mile-long ramp up Rincon Hill, then over the world's two largest suspension bridges, stretching end-to-end for two miles to Yerba Buena ("Goat") Island. There, the highway dives for 500 ft. through the world's largest bore tunnel, 76 ft. wide, 58 ft. high. Next come the world's third largest cantilever bridge (1,400 ft.), five smaller spans, then a long trestle to the Oakland shore. Total length is eight and one quarter miles. The whole structure is strong enough to resist...
Sailors will Bringle little goat to Board Crimson on Soldiers Field, but while honorable animal is Kevorkian around, Harlow's team will be Blankinship men. Only one Player on gobs' team, and he is substitute, so Navy will see Spector when Oakes Fleps passes to a Muse Crimson stands. Harvard linemen not Green; each one can stand Gaffney can dish it out. Odds are on Navy, but that is all Blaha, so take Page from Huey and faites vos jeux. But sailors will go to town in evening when is question of Boston Daughters, not can she, but Wilsie...