Word: ill
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...high mountains surrounding Gijón on the Bay of Biscay winter had already come last week. Rightist troops shivered along mountainous paths slippery with seven inches of snow, fought every inch of the way by indomitable but ill-equipped Asturian miners who heartily cheered the snow that bogged down their enemies' tanks and heavy artillery, grounded their planes. Rightist capture of Gijón seemed in expert military eyes inevitable, but if snow and bad weather continued that capture might be postponed for many weeks, possibly till spring. The slated siege of Gijón would likewise...
Died. William Henry Crocker, 76, San Francisco banker, onetime president of the Crocker First National Bank; in Hillsborough, Calif. Banker Crocker, a conservative Republican, was once a political arch-enemy of Hiram Johnson. When Charles Evans Hughes made his ill-fated 1916 Presidential campaign visit to California, Banker Crocker was credited with being largely responsible for his failure to meet Hiram Johnson, an omission which according to political legend kept Candidate Hughes from being elected President...
...summer of 1845, on an Irish air long heavy with the smell of dung heaps, peat bogs and the personal reek of an ill-kempt and poverty-ridden citizenry, a new and more awful odor arose. Sulphurous, acrid, "like the smell of foul water in a sewer," it came from the almost-ripened potato plants, lay so thick that in some places it was visible as a whitish cloud above them. Where it appeared, leaves turned first purplish-brown, then black; stems withered, so that they broke at the touch, oozing a pus-colored liquid; the potatoes, when dug, were...
Most dangerous element in Europe today--in the world today, he feels, is Italy's outspoken ambitions in the Mediterranean. There "British and French possessions are so important that they could ill afford, in the long run, to allow Mussolini to realize his aspiration...
...Hurley, Morris E. Jr. 17 160 6. University High Berkeley, Calif. Kayser, Robert B. Jr. 18 154 5.10 Belmont Hill Belmont Koufman, Joseph M. 17 175 6. Boston Latin Boston Lyford, Joseph P. 19 152 5.10 Andover Wilton, Conn. O'Conor, Andrew J. 18 159 6.2 Ottawa High Ottawa, Ill. Oliver, Bradley C. 18 142 5.9 St. Mark's Pittsburg, Pa. Thomas, Edward C. P. 18 155 5.9 Belmont Hill Cambridge TACKLES Curtis, Charles P. III 18 185 6. Andover Norfolk Eliot, Thomas L. 17 190 6. No. Shore C. D. Winnetka, Ill. Elser, Peter...