Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Recently someone wrapped a length of iron pipe in a newspaper and with it slugged Ben Kohn. Slugged also were various other Browningites. Last week, Governor Browning posted $250 reward for Ben Kohn's slugger's apprehension. At the same time he invoked a forgotten law of 1919 empowering him to appoint up to 600 State police...
...Bored, he revs up his motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger to full length and charges the bed in a blind rage. The Vagabond retreats under the covers; he is in no mood to fight. Overhead he hears the motor drone round and round. This little thimbleful of winged poison is not fooling; he doesn't seem to care who he attacks. And there...
With his eye on the Lions, Chace brought his men even again with the stroke well lengthened-out and built up a half-length margin. Instead of cracking under the strain the Lions pulled together and reached for the limit in sprint pacing...
...Yale would regard favorably a uniform day of the week as a starting date for football practice. But we believe that any extension of the average length of pre-season practice is unnecessary and will be regarded as implying undue emphasis upon football training, especially an extension which in three years out of eight would bring the players back during the week of Labor...
...confused, ill-armed, uncommanded-troops were hopelessly trapped in the Suchow area. At Hankow, China's temporary capital, Chinese commanders were more optimistic, said their best troops had withdrawn, claimed recapture of two towns, announced that they were engaged upon a little encircling themselves. The entire length of the 630-mile Tientsin-Pukow Railway is now nominally under Japanese control, although the Japanese will have to operate it against ceaseless Chinese guerilla attacks. For Japan's political administrators in China the victory means that Chinese puppets of Japanese-controlled Nanking and Peking can at last be united under...