Word: ong
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only requirements for a court are a flat surface and plenty of headroom, make armories the appropriate place for badminton. Last week's tournament was held in that of the Naval Reserve. Before the tournament started, officials debated whether or not to accept the entry of Hock Sim Ong, Malay post-graduate student at the University of California who learned badminton when he went to Cambridge on a British Government scholarship. Before it was over, four other contestants had good cause to wish the officials had rejected it because Hock Sim Ong had beaten them with discouraging ease...
...jump. Next day, mechanics achieved a flurry of headlines by discovering "a potential disaster threat" in faulty lubrication of the propeller bearings. That fixed Flyer Amelia climbed aboard with two of her crew to take off for the 1,940 mi. hop to Howland Island. Down the ong concrete runway of Luke Field the ship shot at 60 m.p.h. Suddenly the left tire blew out. Lurching, the plane rumpled its landing gear, careened 1,000 ft.. on its bottom in a spray of sparks while he propellers knotted like pretzels. With sirens screaming, ambulances dashed he wreck just...
Huey Long climaxed the municipal primary campaign with an hysterical radio tirade against his opponents, finally bursting into parodied song: Anti-Long, little bogy, anti-Long, little bogy, anti-Lo-o-o-ong...
...lost treasure of the Armada galleon Florencia. On Oak Island, Nova Scotia, a treasure was actually discovered in a 153-ft. shaft which, promptly flooded, defied all attempts to drain it. Last fortnight Inventor Simon Lake was in the newspapers with an elaborate plan and a ong steel tube to salvage the millions hat went down in the purser's strong room in the Lusitania...
HARVARD '34 DARTMOUTH '34 Lowe, l.e. r.e., Ong Healey, l.t. r.t., Halfart Nazro, l.g. r.g., Michelet Lockwood, c. c., McHugh Rogers, r.g. l.g., Lapidus Kopans, r.t. l.t., Baldwin Choate, r.e. l.e., Mansfield Whitney, q.b. q.b., Fishman Peter, l.h.b. r.h.b., Morton Hurlbut, r.h.b. l.h.b., Bennett Waters, f.b. f.b., Hedges...