Word: latters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...felt also that the abolition of the lightweights will add to the interest in the House teams, since most of the men who have played on the latter will now go out for their House teams...
...witness placed Ernst Torgler in a Friedrichstrasse restaurant on the night of the fire and completely discredited van der Lubbe's Communist standing. They described the latter as "weak, vainglorious, partially blind and frequently in debt." German Communist leaders claimed they had never heard of van der Lubbe until he was arrested running out of the Reichstag during the fire. An anonymous witness declared that van der Lubbe was an intimate of famed Nazi Captain Ernst Roehm...
Combatants. The Mail is the late, great Northcliffe's paper, published since his death by his burly, beefy brother Viscount Rothermere and the latter's son, Esmond Harmsworth. The Mail ("For King & Empire") is stodgy, conservative, has its front page filled with advertising, second & third pages full of financial news. For eleven years it held the largest circulation in the world, well over 1,500,000. Longtime runner-up to the Mail is impish Lord Beaverbrook's Express (until this year, 49% owned by Rothermere). The crusading Express is jazzy, sensational, easily readable, packed with shrill headlines...
...into the Union-Library, which Professor Copeland has called "the finest gentlemen's library in America." This library is at the right at the head of the stairs on the second floor. It must be distinguished from the History 1 and Government 1 reading room on the left. The latter is a specialized course library, while the Union Library contains a fine collection of books for general reading. It is interesting to browse among the stalls and examine the old and new volumes, all of wide intellectual appeal...
...contains an article on the present state of College Football by Edwin Dooley. Mr. Dooley has done a fine job with "Where Does College Football Go From Here," but the obvious man to have tackled this horny problem is the much-preoccupied Mr. Tunis. Several years ago the latter published a scorching book on the interrelations of sports (all of them) to gate receipts, salaries years ago the latter published a scorching book on the interrelations of sports (all of them) to gate receipts salaries, and general morals. This book, entitled "$port$," has done more to bring about a reasonable...