Word: pathe
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Having blazed a brilliant path of victory to its training quarters at Red Top, an undefeated Crimson eight is smoothing out rough edges for the final four-mile grind against Yale. When it annexed the mythical sprint championship of the East after beating Navy, no other crew in Harvard's racing history had realized its potentialities as well as Captain Spike Chace's Varsity eight under the patient and critical eye of Coach Tom Bolles...
...only solution at all practicable is cooperative action among the principle sellers and potential sellers of war material. This method has never been tried. In 1931 Britain, and in 1935, America, refused to cooperate. American indifference to world affairs has long been the chief stumbling block in the path of constructive peacemaking; and if this most recent demonstration of her vital position in the world has jolted public opinion but slightly out of its blind isolationism, it has been well worth while...
...batches ever.*In the President's files were endorsements for 223 candidates for these vacancies -important political ammunition in an election year. And while the President studied his shots, more Federal Court vacancies came to hand, in the Third Circuit Court at Philadelphia. A rugged rock in the path of the New Deal steam roller was this Third Circuit Court. Four of its aged justices-Joseph Buffmgton, J. Whitaker Thompson, Victor B. Woolley, J. Warren Davis-had worked together for years in closest conservative harmony...
...Kaifeng to fall, finally holed up in Chengchow, and at week's end Japanese bombers hammered at the city. Japanese shock troops pressed at its sides. Capture of Chengchow would enable the Japanese to right-angle down 300 miles of railway to Hankow. Only serious obstacle in their path will be the Chinese defense fortifications in the southern Honan mountains near Sinyang. Meanwhile, two Japanese forces pushing from the Nanking area to Hankow, one paralleling the swollen Yangtze, the other striking overland through southern Anhwei Province, last week were bogged down by heavy rains, inefficient transport. After a long...
...planes of the American Boeing type- nicknamed "chatos" (snub-nosed) by Madrilenians-had arrived in such numbers that in the following two months Leftists eliminated the fierce aerial bombing of Madrid, stopped two strong Rightist offensives. Then early this year, Franco's augmented air force blasted a bloody path for his march to the sea, splitting Leftist territory in two this spring...