Word: lined
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mussolini-"Hello, is that you Adolf? This is Benito and I am happy to have you on the end of the line. ... I need some advice on the eve of Chamberlain's arrival. . . . How would you operate...
Opposed to M. Blum was his old friend Paul Faure, the party's secretary general, an old-line Socialist. M. Faure said he believed peace should be kept at all costs, no "entangling alliances" with either democracies or dictatorships should be made. Bad as the peace of Munich might have been, M. Faure believed it was better than war. At the end of long debate the new Socialism won: Leon Blum's resolution was endorsed, 4,322-to-2,837, with 1,004 abstaining...
...when many scientists of bright repute have relaxed their efforts and slipped into the role of inspiring figureheads and advisers to younger men, Oscar Riddle remains in the front line of research...
...Orleans' Sugar Bowl, undefeated, untied Texas Christian, generally considered the No. 1 football team of 1938, pitted its famed passing attack against the aggressive line play of once-defeated (by Notre Dame) Carnegie Tech. At half-time it looked as if Texas Christian's little Davey O'Brien, most sensational footballer of the year (he completed 93 out of 167 passes), might become the disappointment of the finale. The Scoreboard read Carnegie Tech 7, Texas Christian 6- because little Davey had failed to kick the extra point. But in the second half, Quarterback O'Brien resumed...
...Pasadena's Rose Bowl, in an off-&-on drizzle, a powerful, versatile Southern California team which had given Notre Dame its only defeat of the season, tried desperately to gain the distinction of being the first eleven to cross the goal line of the 1938 Duke team. Though they outrushed the Easterners by 135 yards to 86, outpassed them by 84 yards to 53, not until the final minute did they succeed. Then with four magnificent forward passes, as dramatic as a Hollywood scenario, the Pacific Coast champions smudged Duke's clean slate...