Word: houres
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Malcolm Campbell, 54, Britain's famed speedboat racer (141.74 miles per hour on Lake Coniston, England) and holder of the world's automobile speed record when it was 301 m.p.h. (present record: 368.85), who organized a motorcycle militia unit of 162 men last March, reported for service at Britain's War Office on a motorcycle...
...Tense Denmark diverted itself with the adventures of a prodigious restaurant keeper from Bogense who bet 5,000 crowns ($970) in July that in 90 days flat he could, unassisted, pull Denmark's oldest car right around the country's borders. With only three miles and 24 hours to go he stopped at an inn to celebrate the certainty of bagging his bet. He celebrated so heartily that he fell asleep, overslept, lost his bet by one hour...
Eleven stirring, martial notes, the opening phrase of one of Composer Frederic null Chopin's Polonaises, sounded every 30 seconds from the Warsaw radio station all last week to let the world know that Poland's capital was still Polish. Hour after hour, day after day, the notes came like hope rising from an inferno. For the world also knew what other sounds filled Warsaw-the bellow of bombing planes in power dives, the scream of fighting planes on the attack, the sharp whanging of anti-aircraft guns, the mighty thump, boom and roar of half-ton bombs...
President Conant told the Yardlings that "when you have shaken down and passed the two hazards of football season and November Hour examinations, I will return to give you some advice about Harvard and the University's policies in an off-the-record speech." He will also speak in Appleton Chapel Tuesday morning on world affairs...
Students in the University are offered the opportunity of seeing the Harvard football games in Memorial Stadium free of charge by serving as ushers. Ticket takers will receive 50 cents per hour and be able to see part of each game free...