Word: heats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Rudi Cranz and France's Emile Allais walked up the hill together. Said Cranz: ''You haven't enough paraffin on your skis." Replied Allais: "I haven't any paraffin." said Cranz: "Take this. I have plenty." Cranz had just won the first heat of the slalom-through a zigzag, flag-marked course-in which Allais had finished third...
Cranz won the second heat also but Allais, with Cranz's paraffin on his skis, contrived to finish second, clipping four seconds off his previous time. This, added to his second place in the downhill race the day before, gave Allais, 26-year-old baker's boy, a first in the combined event to add to the International Ski Federation's World Championship he won last month at Chamonix. To generous Rudi Cranz. who finished eighth in the downhill race, fourth in. the combined event, went the consolation of watching his older sister Christl, world...
Next day the Commissar's car took the Ambassador to the metallurgical centre of the Ukraine near the great Dnepr River hydroelectric dam. In the heat of Russia's Revolution, some demanding comrades from the Ukraine called on the great Lenin and wanted to know what the Ukraine was going to get out of all this...
...Borden came back from his errands worn out by the heat. He went into the sitting room, stretched out on the sofa. Soon Bridget, dozing in her room, was roused by a cry from Miss Lizzie: ''Come down here! Father's dead; someone came in and killed him!" Mr. Borden was still lying on the sofa, his face and head a mask of blood. He had been hacked to death with some sharp, heavy instrument. His body was still warm, the blood was still flowing. Neighbors came running, the house was searched; in the spare room they...
This pair go through their routine of scoops, whiskey, and socks on the jaw with refreshing relish. Loretta Young, as a young heiress who announces her engagement to the reporter in order to turn the heat of publicity on him for a change, is excellent. Slim Summerville supplies added amusement in his role of a country judge, the doors of whose cell block are constantly falling from their hinges...