Word: marly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Dec. 1) they named him No. 1, gave him the Amateur Athletic Union's James E. Sullivan Memorial Medal for 1930 as the amateur who "has done most to advance the cause of sportsmanship." Jones got 1,625 votes from the Union's members; Clarence De Mar, runner up, 800; Mrs. Helen Wills Moody...
Marathoner Clarence De Mar...
...applicable to all those who, like the prototype, were ever zooming for the Home Town, a Big-Business Administration, private real estate developments, the Rotary club or God. Last week Realtor Babbitt zoomed Author Lewis himself into an unanticipated world prominence. Aiding were heroes of three other Lewis books - (Mar tin) Arrowsmith, Elmer Gantry (Sam), Dodsworth, accepted by the same vast public as typical of the U. S. scientist, prelate and minor tycoon, respectively. But Babbitt remained foremost among them as a representative of U. S. citizenry and U. S. literature, having been more translated* and being more lipworthy...
...junction of Rio de Janeiro's Avenida Rio Branco and Avenida Beira-Mar stands an obelisk, pride of the city. Last week 16 slouch-hatted gauchos (cowboys) with ponchos over their shoulders and red handkerchiefs knotted about their necks rode up to it and solemnly hitched their ponies to its base while camera shutters clicked and black-coated pedestrians cheered themselves hoarse. This was the final act of Brazil's revolution. The gauchos of Rio Grande do Sul (the southern state in which the revolt started), had vowed: "We'll hitch our ponies to the obelisk...
...Wolverines, undefeated and having only one tie to mar their record, and leading the Western Conference race along with Northwestern come riding on the crest of a wave. A stirring 14 to 12 victory over the Crimson last year gives them confidence and smashing triumphs over Purdue, Ohio State, and Illinois this year have shown that they possess tremendous power...