Word: lot
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Russia Won't Lot Nazis...
Kicking practice started at 2 o'clock, and thoughts of Eli Hovey Seymour's booming spirals gave the boys something to shoot at. Seymour is expected to give the Blue a punting edge Saturday, but Charley Spreyer, Torbie Macdonald, Hank Vander Eb, and Frannie Lee are getting in a lot of hard work in that department this week in an effort to match...
...began has been trying to roar like an airplane engine, took off with a movie glorifying Britain's air defenses. It was called The Lion Has Wings. Conceived by Ian Dalrymple, who scripted The Citadel, edited by American William Hornbeck, produced by Alexander Korda at his Denham lot in twelve crowded days and nights, Britain's first propaganda film of World War II was shown first to the Ministry of Information and the censors. Fearful of disclosing war secrets, they slashed out vast footage, mostly shots of balloon barrages, and the interiors of munitions factories. After that...
...quarrelsome Athenians might not have stuck to these laws if a dictator, Peisistratus, had not enforced them for a generation; after that they became habitual. About 507 B.C. another persuasive political thinker, Cleisthenes, extended an Athenian device which for pure democracy has never been equalled: selection of legislators by lot from the whole list of citizens over 30. It was then that Athenians began feeling their oats...
Forty years ago a young English doctor sailed his ketch along this same coast, and was so moved by the abject poverty of the inhabitants that he decided to devote his life to the betterment of their lot. Today hospitals and schools, missions and orphanages stand as tribute to the energy of one man, this doctor, whose name has become synonymous with Labrador. In the widest possible sense he has educated the people not to suffer on the barest edge of the land but to develop the resources--timber and minerals--which lie inland...