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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...better than lead soldiers in German toy shops last week was a Nazified parchesi called Juden Raus (Out With the Jews). Advertised as an "entertaining, instructive and solidly constructed" game, its equipment is a pair of dice, a playing board covered with a map of Europe and Asia, a number of small figures patterned after the odious Jewish caricatures of Julius Streicher's Der Stünner. The players shake the dice in turn, move the Jews across the map by stages determined by the dice. The winner: the first player to get all his Jews out of Germany...
...same hour, nearly a dozen other explosions blasted England, most of them at power stations, gas works, water reservoirs and public buildings. Police who rushed to the spots had no trouble figuring out the cause. A number of unexploded home-made bombs were found. They had been made from batteries, alarm clocks and gelignite, a gelatin dynamite or "safe" explosive favored by British safecrackers...
...skater in the U. S. Contrary to popular impression derived from the dozens of professional ice-skating shows that have been touring the country, figure skating is neither acrobatics on skates nor dancing on ice. The sport of figure skating has a set of explicit school figures, 41 in number, which must be executed with hairline precision. All 41 are seldom mastered in less than eight years...
...petition was signed by 258 men in the two houses, more than half the total number of students in them, it was pointed out by Nelson Miles '40, who gave the petition to Durant. That the change was felt desirable by many residents who were not directly affected was shown by the fact that approximately 180 of the signers did not have cars. It was estimated that all but a dozen car owners in the two houses signed...
Among the many types of term-time jobs, the largest number of individual placements, 738, went to typists, with chore workers, 241, second. These two groups together earned $4,878, while the largest earnings $30,492, went to 239 waiters including 60 in the Freshman Dining Hall. The new positions as House Athletic Secretaries, created last year, provided 25 upperclassmen with earnings of $4,350. Among its unusual placements the Office supplied the hero and villain for a pictorialized serial in a local tabloid, a man with good eyesight to inspect the life buoys which hang from various bridges...