Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have heard, the Federal Government within the past two years has loaned $2,563,000 and given $2,097,000 to the Imperial Irrigation District of California for construction of a power system that duplicates entirely the system of our privately-owned power utility in the same area-the Imperial Valley, largest irrigated area in the world...
...clad in a red chasuble and mitre of cloth-of-gold, lay one day last week in a triple coffin near the high altar of St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City. For three days before, throngs (estimated as high as 1,200,000) had ceaselessly filed past the chapel where the Pope's body lay upon a catafalque...
...less tactful was German Ambassador to the Vatican Carl-Ludwig Diego von Bergen, who, while conveying to the College of Cardinals the condolences of the diplomatic corps, told them: "We are assisting at the elaboration of a new world, which wants to raise itself upon the ruins of a past that in many things no longer has any reason to exist. We want this evolution to be peaceful, and the papacy without any doubt has an essential role...
These and thousands of other neatly packed facts appear in a little red book, The Encyclopedia of Sports,* published last week by Cleveland-born, 53-year-old Frank G. Menke. longtime Hearst sportswriter. To investigate the present and past of the world's pastimes, Sportswriter Menke devoted 20 years, poked his nose into 2,000 books, spent $8,000. The result is a 320-page history of recreation (covering almost 100 sports from roller polo to aviation), small enough to be carried in a tipster's hip pocket, informative enough to make a sports columnist...
During the past fortnight Broadway's box office slumped badly. As usual, managers blamed inclement and unseasonable weather. But they also thought up a new wrinkle: Manhattan is light on transients, out-of-towners saving their breath to cool their World's Fair porridge...