Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...aware that two fleets were never more unevenly matched than the Spanish and U. S. at Santiago on July 3, 1898. Admiral Cervera's fleet consisted of four cruisers, three torpedo boats. One cruiser, the Cristóbal Colón, was minus her main battery, it having been still in the foundry when she had to leave Spain. The whole Spanish cruiser force could not throw a broadside equal in weight to that of the U. S. battleship Oregon, which belonged to an armada of four battleships, one cruiser, two armed yachts...
Published without the consent of its author, the novel achieved huge success in Germany until, after twelve editions, Liepmann returned to the country and immediately put a stop to further publication. The story is in the main taken from the author's own diaries--the diaries of an introspective child of the war. "It is one of those books which can never be forgotten never as long as you live," were the words the late John Galsworthy addressed to the author after reading the book in the original German...
Introduced by Dean Hanford, Professor Frederick L. Schumann, of Williams, will give the main address...
...Main feature of baseball's annual predictions is unvarying from year to year: they are always wrong. Certainties of the forthcoming season last week were exactly two: 1) in 1937 players, managers and umpires will get more money out of the game than they ever have before; 2) in 1937, major-league baseball will furnish the U. S. public with the most extraordinary character it has produced since...
...dead mike." The microphone, not dead at all, is connected with the one on which the Bernie Band is broadcasting. Eddie's voice makes him instantly famed as "radio's phantom troubadour." Thereafter, Wake Up and Live consists of an elaborately braided narrative in which the main strands are Bernie's efforts to find out who the phantom troubadour is, put him on the air again; Winchell's efforts to beat Bernie to the discovery; and the efforts of a girl singer named Alice Huntley (Alice Faye), who has outdistanced both, to nurse Eddie...