Word: loping
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...Ruddy, cigar-chewing Frank Knox seldom gets time for golf, at which he is a better-than-average dub. His substitute: harder work in his 15-minute morning round of setting-up exercises. His routine as he approaches 70: arm thrashings, a four-minute lope around suite...
...opera (Cenerentola) with catcalls and cabbages, Composer Wolf-Ferrari got most of his later works firsted outside Italy. But last week Milanese operagoers had a chance to chortle over a Wolf-Ferrari first. The new opera: La Nina Boba (The Stupid Girl), based on an old Spanish comedy by Lope de Vega...
...Hyde Park with his bounding black Afghan coursing hounds, Rib and Rab, one a gift from the King of Afghanistan. Their full names, Ribbentrop and Rabinovich, are Augur's private joke in defiance of Nazi anti-Jewish legislation. Trained to run down gazelles, Rib and Rab now lope with their master on his news hunts all over England, have committed nuisances in the sacred precincts of the Foreign Office itself...
...closest approach "Object Reinmuth" sped within 400,000 miles of Earth, which is less than twice the distance of the moon. Collision with one of these small planets or asteroids which lope around the solar system is a perennial theme with lurid fictionists, but mathematical chances against the occurrence are extremely high because of the great distances o space. If a body the size of ''Object Reinmuth" struck this globe it would not only annihilate everything at the site of impact but cause a tremendous earthquake and fires which would destroy life and property hundreds of miles away...
...apples were exported, mostly to England. Later such tremendous trade barriers rose that exports fell to 6,000,000 last season. Last week Secretary of State Cordell Hull sent a message outlining the 16 reciprocal trade treaties which concern apples. A blow to lope however was delivered by Fruit Specialist Fred A. Motz of the U. S. bureau of agricultural economics, who pointed out that good apples from South America, South Africa and New Zealand are finding favor in Europe, thus giving U. S. apples real competition. The mass of delegates consoled themselves by playing golf, dancing and wishing there...