Word: light
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mediator" to arrange a "peaceful settlement" to the Sudeten German problem. Lord Runciman was eminently successful. Last week, on his way home from a world-circling vacation trip, he arrived in Montreal, Quebec, was questioned by newshawks on his availability as a mediator in the current Danzig dispute. Cracked light-hearted Lord Runciman: "You wouldn't want me to do that all over again...
Racing toward the important diplomatic and commercial goal of the United States of Brazil this week were two highly placed rival representatives of opposing political and economic systems. Nearing Rio de Janeiro from the North on the U. S. light cruiser Nashville was Brigadier General George Catlett Marshall, soon to become U. S. Army Chief of Staff. Heading for Brazil from the East on the Italian liner Conte Grande was high-powered, gay, vivacious Countess Edda Ciano, wife of the Italian Foreign Minister, favorite daughter of Benito Mussolini...
...Designer Davis' calculations. Consolidated's new 25-ton Model 31 had a high speed of 275 m.p.h. (75 miles faster than Boeing's four-motored 314 clipper), handled nicely in the air. Gasoline consumption showed that she had a range of 10,000 miles with a light passenger load, that she could lug 28 passengers in Pullman accommodations across the Atlantic at a speed unprecedented for commercial flying boats...
...night of February 14 Henry Ewald went to a small, unpainted wooden house in Mobile's red-light district. A few minutes later the door burst open, a flash bulb glared and Crusader Ewald was photographed in bed with a man and a woman. Before he was blackjacked, tough Henry Ewald knocked three of the intruders sprawling and threw a fourth out of the window. He staggered home, called his publisher, Ralph Bradford Chandler, told him he had been framed...
...fully recovered from various injuries of the season and Skip will be able to put a strong force in the field. The lineup will be the same as for the Boston Lacrosse Club match last Saturday, with plenty of shooting strength in the forward wall and three light, speedy players in the midfield...