Word: mats
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...heroic" war of 1864-70, reducing Paraguay's population from 1,337,000 to only 221,000, of whom 28,000 were men. Dyspeptic, diar-rehic, goitred and leprous, the Indians had multiplied to 800,000 by 1932, living chiefly on maize and mandioca bread, exporting yerba maté tea, tinned meat and tannin from the Gran Chaco's quebracho tree...
...bomb explosions that nightly interrupted Vargas' sleep in Montevideo made the visiting President uneasy. On the third day the two presidents and their womenfolk went to the races at Montevideo's Hippodrome. The jockey club president invited them upstairs to the buffet for a glass of Yerba Maté. At the head of the stairs they were met by onetime Nationalist Deputy Bernardo Garcia. He pulled out a gun. Somebody jostled his arm. A shot plunked into President Terra's shoulder. The crowd knocked down visiting President Vargas; his daughter fainted; an officer slashed the assassin over...
Resolution No. 1: Let the AP maintain its picture-mat service to small papers at the same standard of efficiency as in the past, and at no greater cost than in pre-Wirephoto days. Boldly Publisher Macy pounced on a sore toe by reviewing the AP's momentous blunders on the Hauptmann verdict, the Gold Clause decision and the Weirton case "while the executives' attention was diverted to Wire-photo." His main point for the resolution: His papers were required to pay 50% more for an expedited mat-service to keep from being scooped by metropolitan dailies invading...
Like her characters, Elizabeth Madox Roberts is not afraid of grandeur, and she approaches her stories with conscious dignity. And in her majestic entrances and exits she rarely catches her foot in the mat. But the grandness of her manner, which was increasingly impressive in The Time of Man and The Great Meadow, has now reached such a pitch that readers cannot hope to come near her without taking off their workaday shoes and donning reverential slippers. Many a reader will consider life too short for such sartorial efforts; but for those who do not, Author Roberts has some solemn...
...captain-elect, who varies between the 126 and 135-pound classes, has been in mat competition since his Freshman year when he won his numerals and is now finishing his second campaign of Varsity grappling. He is entered in the New England Intercollegiates which will be held today and tomorrow at M.I.T...