Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...golden nautilus shell, no larger than a lady's hand, to stimulate international competition at six-meter yacht racing, an old Scandinavian specialty. No longer than it took them to say smorgasbord, rich U. S. yachtsmen began to build six-meter boats (almost one-fourth the length of America's Cup yachts), found them fun to maneuver and comparatively inexpensive to maintain (about $3,000 a year in addition to some $8,000 initial outlay). Within four years there were enough good six-meter sailors in the U. S. to send a representative (each country is limited...
...Harrow, Britain's two most exclusive "public" schools where many a future Empire builder gets his early training, is a well-mannered, ultra-polite social function. There old grads, most of them carrying umbrellas, wearing cutaways and top hats and accompanied by their wives dressed in ankle-length garden-party frocks, are brought together by the force of the old school tie. U. S. spectators, used to rowdy football games, are always amazed at the polite applause, rather than raucous cheering, that greets the players; at the number of high-collared parsons present; at the way everyone takes time...
...Reich today may be deduced from a purchase made by the Führer himself at Munich's Congress two years ago. Reportedly to decorate his bedroom, he paid 15,000 marks for Professor Adolph Ziegler's (President of the Reich Chamber of Graphic & Plastic Arts) full-length, photographic female nude Terpsichore. Prior to the purchase, its voluptuous model had accompanied the Reich Leader through the exhibition. Almost anywhere else in the world Terpsichore would be considered the kind of thing to put on a beer ad calendar. Not so in the new Germany. Last week the Munich...
...22nd annual P.G.A. championship tournament, held last week at the Pomonok Country Club, almost within a trylon's length of the New York World's Fair, will long be remembered for: 1) the noisiest squabble in the history of the Professional Golfers Association; 2) the most exciting final waged between two bread-&-butter putters...
...Norris whose eight books have been translated into 13 languages, Sigrid Boo (rhymes with Hoo) at 40 makes her first U. S. bow with The Long Dream. As befits the country that originated the langlauf (long-distance ski race), her novel is slow in starting, spends nearly half its length on the heroine's retrospective thoughts during a train journey back to her native town after seven years' absence...