Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Alicante. From that point Germany will patrol the southeastern coastline to Malaga. British ships will patrol from Malaga through the Strait of Gibraltar to the beginning of the Portuguese coastline. Over the Spanish-Portuguese land frontier 130 "international observers" will keep watch. French and British ships jointly will pick up the blockade on the northwest Spanish seas at Vigo where the Spanish coastline begins again, will patrol the Bay of Biscay around to the French frontier. France has already closed its Spanish land frontier, has posted gendarmes and military police along the French side of the Pyrenees. Spain will thus...
...Diablo. His most important victim before Venturi was Carlo Orlandi, onetime champion of Europe. When they met in 1935, Orlandi won the first seven rounds and Manager Burston begged his man to get busy. Said Devil Montanez: "This fight isn't over yet. They'll pick him up off the floor. . . ." In the eighth round, Orlandi picked himself off the floor three times, in the ninth four times, in the tenth twice. The next time he went down, his seconds carried him out. When the fight was over, Orlandi spent four months in a hospital, was retired...
...aroused, even though up to this year the League results haven't been too successful. But this season sees the team with six League wins already, twice as many as a Crimson team has ever won before; and they have what is certainly a good fighting chance to pick up two more. with the growth of better teams there was an accompanying growth in interest in the sport...
...good look at a fair cross-section of its college co-eds last week. For the first time since 1933, a beauty contest was held among the Big Ten universities of the Midwest. Purdue, Michigan and Indiana refused to let their girls participate, but scouts from Northwestern helped pick, and the promoters...
...largely based upon ten minute reports previously submitted at this meeting by the undergraduate chairman of the five round tables. Although each of the chairmen prefaced his remarks with a statement to the effect that few definite conclusions had been reached by the conferees, Mr. Berle was able to pick out several trends of thought which seemed fairly universal for all five groups...