Word: lowering
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Princeton's medley team will attempt to continue its record-cracking performances of this season, and will be far ahead of the rest of the field. However, if Jim Curwen swims anchor for the Crimson, the Tigers will be pressed to record-lowering time, as they were the night of the Princeton-Harvard meet when Cummin, Berizzi, and Curwen made the Tiger trio lower the world's record, unofficially, since Van de Wehe missed turn...
When Cuba revived constitutional government in 1936, after a three-year lapse, the constitution provided that half the lower chamber be renewed every two years. Some months ago the members drew lots to determine those who would serve the short two-year term and at last week's balloting a majority of the unlucky holders were up for reelection. All the candidates, although they represented seven parties, were pledged to Batista and his Three-Year Plan. Cuban voters were so apathetic that less than 30% of the electorate went to the polls...
...trim ketch Novia Del Mar. Mr. Scripps, frail in his youth but strong in later years, confided to friends that he feared he would some day bleed to death. Last week that grave fear became a fearful fact. Stricken with another hemorrhage while his yacht rolled in Magdalena Bay, Lower California, Robert Scripps died...
FATHERLAND FAREWELL!-Gosta Larsson - Harcourt, Brace ($2.50). Solid novel about Swedish working-class life before the War, centring on the great emigration to the U. S. Its well-studied hero is an ambitious young engineer who struggles against his lower-class destiny, tries unsuccessfully to escape...
Vienna is probably not over 20% Nazi, but in the rural provinces Austrian Nazis run up to as high as 80%. In Graz, the chief city of Lower Austria, adjoining Hungary, the Nazi flag was hoisted above the town hall last week while Schuschnigg was speaking in Vienna. Next day the locally popular Mayor claimed he had resigned before a telegram from the Chancellor demanded he take "a vacation." Graz looked like one big Nazi meeting, with Hitler's picture in every shop whose owner did not want his window smashed, with peddlers selling Nazi lapel buttons, with crowds...