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...Adolfo Montero's Chiriguano Indians, four chocolate-brown women bathing in a pool overhung by deep green palm trees...
Mass bombing, probably by night, is a spectre that has overhung Great Britain for ten solid weeks. Every Briton has spotted the hole that he will go to when it comes. Every one supposes that, with all the time there has been to make ready, Air Raid Precautions will save the civilian population from such horrors as were seen in Barcelona and Madrid...
...fully insured Cities Service, the fire was chiefly an inconvenience. To the petroleum industry at large it was something of a blessing-for at least 119,047 barrels of gas and oil were consumed, thus reducing the tremendous inventories which overhung the market...
Although a think tulle fog overhung the four mile course, the zero visibility did not halt the first and second Varsity eights. No times were made public and it was announced that no results would be issued to the press during the training period...
...world's most dangerous. While Berlin was making a fine airport even finer, Washington could do no better last week than agree to regulate traffic around its 140-acre Hoover Field "to prevent collisions." Too close to military fields, cut in half by a public road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp, airline pilots last year protested to the Bureau of Air Commerce against Washington airport's further use for big, modern transports, threatened to quit landing there in 60 days. This speeded bills to enlarge the port, which were vetoed...