Word: marked
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hunt snipe-one to hold the bag and two to enjoy the joke. Edouard Daladier is firmly determined that if the London Conference is a snipe hunt, it will not be France that is left holding the bag. She is already holding the gold standard bag, with pound, dollar, mark and lira all cut loose. She cannot devaluate her money further without risking violent insurrection from hard-bitten French investors, who have already seen 80% of their savings swept away in the inflation and demonetization of the franc in 1924-28. And France has few bargains to offer foreign countries...
...Harry Marvin-Smith, B. F. Merriam, Edward Motley, A. E. Newhold, P. D. O'Brien, M. A. Olson, G. A. Ott, Gordon Palmer, H. V. Poor, R. D. Reed, Warren Richards, B. C. Riggs, S. H. Rindge, E. L. Rogers, E. P. Rosenbaum, J. B. Rowland, S. C. Salmon, Mark Saxton, F. F. Schimmel, O. M. Schloss, C. G. Sherwood, Roger Silsby, W. A. Smith, T. W. Steptoe, R. N. Svoboda, E. O. Tilton, J. M. Timken, P. A. Unger, G. E. Wesner, H. H. Wilder, J. A. Wilhelm, T. W. Wills, Collier Wright, R. S. Young...
...particularly thick jungle. The troops were well camouflaged and equipped with machine guns. Picked infantry companies stood ready to advance with fixed bayonets. The Bolivians awaited the enemy's attack and let them advance almost in front of their lines. Then, with Paraguayans at the 20-yard mark, the Bolivian guns opened up, raking the Paraguayan lines with a terrific fire. The battle was hardly 15 minutes old before about 120 Paraguayan bodies were strewn over the battlefield. Bolivian casualties wore much lighter...
Raymond of Beverly won the half-mile in class C in 2 minutes, 2 1-5 seconds, clipping two-fifths of a second off the old mark...
...margin, the Winthrop House crew was outrowed by the Yale Junior "A" crew in the Basin on Saturday afternoon. The Puritan boat, champion of the Harvard House crews, unexpectedly opened up at the start and led for the first half mile. But the Elis drew up at the mile mark and surged ahead to the finish line, winning by an even length over the mile and three-quarters distance...