Word: handedness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Not daring to present the word officially at a Downing St. meeting, Premier Hertzog slyly let the word leak to the Press that his Dominion would recommend that the independent Republic of Liberia be seized by force if necessary and handed over to Germany as a League of Nations mandate...
Into Churchill, Man., at sunset one evening, strode a young (24) adventurer named Dave Irwin. Blond, husky Adventurer Irwin was finishing a 2,600-mi. dog-team trip from Aklavik, on the shore of the Arctic Ocean. In 1931 he set out from Alaska to help Herdsman Andy Bahr drive...
At Churchill Downs last week, bettors wagered nearly $500,000 on the Derby. On an ordinary horse race, for every dollar that is bet at the track, $10 are bet elsewhere. Total moneys that changed hands on the Derby probably amounted to more than $10,000,000. Conspicuous by their...
Two years ago General Electric Co. filed suits in a U. S. District Court in California against a group of Japanese importers trading under the names of Tokyo Lamp Co., International Lamp Co. and Pacific Importing Co., charging that the Japanese had 1) sold bulbs which infringed upon G. E...
Let's start at home with W. C. Fields and his lads and lasses of the showboat in "Mississippi." We may be a bit biassed, but we must consider Bill Fields the most interesting item in any picture which is fortunate enough to be graced by his bulbous-nosed presence...