Word: holme
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gregg, Jr., Herman Gundlach, J. R. Haley, V. H. Handy, Elmer Jr., J. K. Hart, J. M. Heidell, E. Hollis, Jr., H. E. Holm, Jr., Hoiske, R. S. Hormell, V. W. Howe, H. Hunter, J. F. Hutchinson, C. L. L. W. Kane, D. M. Kellogg, Jr., G. Kellogg, Waters Kellogg, H. L. Jr., E. A. Kratovil, L. P. Ledoux, Lehmann, Jr., Edward Levy, E. L. R. M. Lorent...
...Under her right eye, Eleanor Holm wears a waterproof beauty patch. She is so pretty that Ziegfeld offered her a job in the Follies which her mother persuaded her not to take...
Swimmers. Everyone expected Eleanor Holm to win the 300-yd. medley race. Her specialty is the back stroke used on the middle lap, after a 100-yd. breast stroke start and before the 100-yd. crawl at the finish. Instead, wiry little Katherine Rawls wiggled to a 5-yd. lead in the first lap, held it through the second, crawled farther ahead in the last lap and won in 4:45⅛ four seconds faster than the previous Holm world's record. Next day Minnow Rawls won the 220-yd. breast stroke championship with a new U. S. record...
...British .22 calibre rifle team: a match against the U. S., at Bisley Camp, England, 3,927 to 3,925 ¶Eleanor Holm, slim, blonde-haired swimming champion: a new world's record (4 min., 47 sec.) for the 300 metres back stroke, surpassing her own previous record of 4 min., 49 2/5 sec.; at Glen Cove...
Abruptly, Royal Boss Reza created the Persian Foreign Trade Department, gave it monopoly powers. Last week in Stockholm a swarthy Representative of the P. F. T. D. let important contracts to eleven Swedish firms, among them Swedish General Electric, Atlas Diesel (engines), Nydquist & Holm (locomotives) and the Gota Shipyards. Persia's blanket purchase totaled $2,680,000, represents chiefly structural steel, rails and other equipment for modernizing Persia's transport system...