Word: made
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bombers, their red-disc insignia plain to their victims below, maneuvered into position. In the twilight, soon made more brilliant by a full moon, they divided, one formation concentrating over Dujugai, another heading for the city's congested southern district, another concentrating on the hilltops where consulates are located...
This week the 40th of this long line of monarchs also made history. He set out to visit: 1) a Dominion in which no British Sovereign had ever set foot; 2) a hemisphere never penetrated in person by any ruling King of Great Britain; 3) the nation which but for the stupidity of his great -great -great -Grandfather George, would today be the richest dominion of his Empire...
King John, a Plantaganet issued the Magna Charta. Henry VIII, a Tudor, acquired a kingly record for marriages. Elizabeth, another Tudor, made England mistress of the seas. Charles I, a Stuart, lost his head in a palace courtyard. George III, a Hanover, kept his pig-head and lost his country the richest half of North America. Victoria, a Saxe-Coburg, became Empress of India...
Last year, as a two-year-old, Johnstown won only seven of twelve races. Because Johnstown ate too fast and often made himself ill, his trainer invented a sievelike device to feed him oats slowly. Johnstown swiftly improved. This spring, in three starts, no rival could get within six lengths of his heels at the finish line. Last week, Owner Woodward saw Johnstown join one of the Derby's smallest fields as one of the shortest favorites in the history of the race...
...those 14 years, earnest, honest Lou Gehrig, the sort of player managers dream about, made a fetish of his endurance record. Eclipsed by his colorful, temperamental teammate Babe Ruth, plodding Lou Gehrig felt that his drawing power was his dependability rather than his brilliance. When, at spring training camp this year, the Iron Horse suddenly realized that he was getting rusty, panic overtook him. He brooded, became tense at bat. Sportswriters, viewing his feeble performance, wrote his batting obituary-for all the world to read - before the season started...