Word: quarter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...COLLEGE, PENNA., March 25--Captain John Harkness '38, of the Crimson grapplers, Eastern Intercollegiate 175-pound mat champion, worked his way into the semi-finals of the N.C.A.A. wrestling championships by defeating Jim Taylor, Cornell College (Iowa) in the second round this afternoon and Wesley Leverich, Illinois, in the quarter-finals this evening...
...Quadrangular Meet a month ago he easily defeated Foster of Dartmouth and Nevius of Cornell in the 600 later to run anchor on the mile relay. Some expect him to go unbeaten the rest of his college career. Jaako hopes he will break 48 seconds in the quarter this spring...
Meanwhile in many factory districts throughout Austria stalwart Nazis, mostly Austrians, were busy stripping to the waist workmen known for their Communist or Socialist views, giving them the cat-o'-nine-tails. In the Jewish quarter of Vienna boys were flogged, the eyes of old men watered as their beards were jerked. Nazis spat in the faces of Jewesses, and almost everyone whether Jew or Aryan was soon wearing a swastika. Later Jews were forbidden to wear them. The arrest by Nazi pagans of Theodor Cardinal Innitzer was incessantly rumored, but his Palace ran up the Nazi flag...
...harmful agent that got into the body but by the lack of a beneficial agent which did not get in. A Dutchman, Christian Eijkman, found that chickens which ate nothing but polished rice developed beriberi, but that if the chickens ate the rice coatings they got better. For a quarter century Dr. Robert Runnels Williams of Bell Telephone Laboratories labored to extract the mysterious "vitamin" from rice coatings, finally squeezed 1/6 oz. from a ton of raw material. Later Vitamin B 1 , as it is now called, was synthesized. The synthetic vitamin is also known as thiamin chloride...
Because the course is a training-program for instructors, men taking it must be 29 years of ago, must already have passed the Senior Life-Saving requirements, and must be able to demonstrate their ability to swim a quarter-mile, using any stroke...