Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Like all but a handful of league hockey players, 35-year-old Eddie Shore is a Canadian and a scrapper. In his time he has overdone the latter, as a result has none of his own teeth left. His nose has been broken ten times. In one fracas with the Maroons six years ago he got his nose, jaw and four ribs broken, a twisted knee, two shiners. It was by accident that he upset Toronto's "Ace" Bailey in 1933, fracturing his skull, but his reputation was against him. He drew a 46-day suspension, spent most...
...Bauer, hurdler and high jumper, is one of the better bets; he has done better than six feet in the latter event...
...more than six nominations are made, there will be a primary election next Tuesday, with a run-off for the six highest on Thursday, March 23. If less than six are named by petition, a single election will be held on the latter date...
...barium was the clue to something terrific. For the huge uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, weighs 238 units.* The barium atom weighs 137 units. Since the barium could have originated only as a fragment of the big uranium atom, it was logical to suppose that the latter had cracked asunder, in two nearly equal parts. The release of atomic energy was 200,000,000 electron-volts. Heavy atoms had been "chipped" before -that is, forced to throw off small particles like neutrons-but this was the first time they had been cracked...
...important consequences may follow from this agreement. Close economic ties with Brazil may result in close cultural relations and quite possibly military arrangements. Although the latter were ummentioned in the pact, there has been considerable discussion about making America's armament supplies available for her poorly armed Southern neighbor. Secondly, the Brazilian Pact may set in motion a series of United States, Latin-American trade arrangements that will change the whole complexion of the South American situation. The closer the Pan-American ties become, the less the danger of European totalitarian philosophy, and the brighter the future of freedom...