Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pick handles, clouted every C. I. O. man they could find in town, wrecked the meeting hall. Looking for more C. I. O. meetings, the mob crossed the Kansas line. One section went to Treece, wrecked the C. I. O. headquarters there, another went on to Galena, marched up Main Street. As they came abreast of the C. I. O. headquarters, a volley of shots broke their ranks. When the sheriff got there he found nine Tri-Staters writhing in the street, C. I. O. headquarters deserted, no one to charge with the shooting...
...front cover) In 1886, famed "Cap" Anson created a furor by taking his Chicago baseball team (including Evangelist Billy Sunday) to Hot Springs, Ark. to get ready for the opening of the season. Since then, spring training has been a baseball institution. Main purpose of spring training is not to recondition baseballers but to recondition baseball addicts, by reminding them that a new season is about to start, reviving their interest in the game. By last week, baseball addicts had had six weeks of training-camp news to assure them that the 1937 major-league season would start in Boston...
...main difficulty is that neither Robert Taylor nor Jean Harlow acts. Robert Taylor has concluded that all that is expected of him is to be irresistibly boyish, which he sets out to be ad nauseam. Jean Harlow, on the other hand, thinks her whore job done if she glowers her way through the show and charges around squalling away in the most strident voice she can muster. Occasionally she sees fit to force the wannest of smiles, which can scarcely compensate anybody for all the termagancy he has witnessed...
From the early and relatively short-lived off-shoots of the main mammalian trunk, the Harvard Paleontologists assembled many specimens. Of the family of cynodonts,--small, dog-sized, carnivorus lizards,--they obtained the finest fossils ever found in the Americas. The collection includes a large number of complete cynodont skeletons and skulls in good preservation. The world's chief cynodont deposits are in South Africa, and hitherto only fragmentary skulls of this family have been found in South America...
However, the case of Drs. Sweezy and Walsh focuses attention on four main problems which are of vital importance in the administration of the University and on which there is considerable debate. They...