Word: heart
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Twenty-five Yardling oarsmen were X-rayed at the Dillon Field House yesterday in a long-range experiment to prove conclusively that rowing does not affect the size of the heart. Guinea pigs for the tests, these Freshmen will submit to similar X-rays semi-annually throughout their four years of college...
Died. Clarence Seward Darrow, 80, criminal lawyer, defender of underdogs, winner of lost causes; of heart disease; in Chicago. Agnostic, bitter opponent of capital punishment ("organized, legalized murder"), Darrow never prosecuted a case, never had a client executed. His great defenses: 1) Socialist Eugene Victor Debs, arrested (1894) on a charge of conspiracy in organizing an American Railway Union strike-acquitted; 2) William D. ("Big Bill") Haywood and colleagues, accused of plotting assassination (1905) of Idaho's Governor Steunenburg - acquitted; 3) Brothers John J. and James B. McNamara, charged (1911) with dynamiting the Los Angeles Times Building- imprisoned...
Died. Dr. William Albert Wirt, 64, educator; of a heart attack; in Gary, Ind. In 1934 he charged that the Brain Trust was plotting revolution and that Franklin Roosevelt was a U. S. Kerensky, which made far more news than his widely adopted Gary School Plan (alternating work, study, play...
...corner of the ring sat the buffoon of heavyweights, U. S. ex-Champion Max Baer, sometimes described as Madcap Max of the faint heart, now billed as attempting a serious comeback. In the other corner sat the heavyweight champion of the British Empire, Welshman Tommy Farr, loser to Joe Louis and Jim Braddock in his two U. S. fights, clumsy but courageous, now billed as the owner of a newly-developed punch. The odds were 2-to-1 on Farr, who had beaten Baer in London eleven months...
...streams of German blood,* we have ordered Austria's armed forces to withdraw without resistance, in the event that an invasion is carried out. . . . And so I take leave of the Austrian people with a German word of farewell which I utter from the depths of my heart: Gott schuetze Oesterreich [GOD PROTECT AUSTRIA...