Word: mate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Grande do Sul, popular in other livestock states of Minas Geraes and Parahyba. It was naturally these three states that rallied in revolution last week around defeated Candidate Vargas. He has charged for months that agents of the "Coffee Oligarchs" assassinated the vice-presidential candidate who was his running mate. He says that he would now be President-elect instead of Dr. Prestes had not the "Coffee Government" of President Washington Luis perpetrated gross ballot-box frauds...
...Whirl wind, the new arrangement is really a return to laboratory and workbench. As a youngster at Groton, school for rich men's sons, Charlie Lawrance neglected his language classes in favor of mathematics, started building an automobile. As a Yale freshman in 1901 he and a class mate and a Harvard friend completed the car and drove it-the second ever seen in Cambridge, Mass. Because he did riot have to work for his living, young Mr. Lawrance could devote the years after graduation to research, experiment with motors and study in Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris...
When the War began, Mr. Lawrance was already attacking the problem of reducing the weight of aircraft engines, then all water-cooled. He enlisted in the Navy as a machinist's mate, was soon commissioned ensign and assigned by the Navy Department to aeronautical research. There he evolved the radial air-cooled motor which was to be the basic pattern for today's Whirlwinds...
...Barker cuts the connecting lines on his diving suit and with commendable sureness of foot and direction walks to shore. He wanders about dazed, unable to get his suit off, and eventually stumbles upon the cannibals who are about to make a meal of Daisy and his ship's mate. The cannibals think a god from the ocean-depths is standing before them. All ends merrily enough when Schultz meets a bloody death and Barker sails for home with Daisy and a fortune...
...change in the Team A lineup when Kales went to right tackle in place of Cunningham, who had been there for the past few days. Kales has been ineligible for the past two years and is making a strong effort for a first team berth this season. Kales running mate at right guard was Brooks, who replaced Talbot, while Ogden was at the end. Captain Ticknor, of course, was at center, and the left side of the line had Harding, end, Richards, tackle, and Trainer, guard. The Junior backfield of Wood, Mays, Devens, and White completed the eleven...