Word: raced
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago, Grynszpan, still awaiting trial in Paris, unsuccessfully petitioned to be allowed to join the French Army "so that I could kill some more Germans." And last week in Germany, his race had once again to pay for his crime. All during 1939 Jews in Germany have frantically sold their property at ruinous prices in efforts to pay their $400,000,000 fine. On Aug. 15 they made "final payments," but last week Count Lutz Schwerin von Krosigk announced that this has proved "not enough...
Comstock's light, fast crew won the race, closely followed over the finish line by the eights of Anderson and Gray, which came in second and third, respectively...
Wagner and Wilson came in half a length behind Anderson. Next in order of finishing came Bailey, Lincoln, Hemans, Redmond, and Farley. Bailey's boat, which came in sixth, was the first 150-lb. crew to finish the race...
Although no times were taken, the race was swiftly run off as there was a favorable wind. Bolles was quite pleased that the coxswains were so efficient in avoiding accidents
...psychological leanings. Widely different explanations will be propounded, and it would be out of place and time to comment at any length in this dispatch on this aspect of Herr Hitler's mentality and character. But he combined, as I fancy many Germans do, admiration for the British race with envy of their achievements and hatred of their opposition to Germany's excessive aspirations. It is no exaggeration to say that he assiduously courted Great Britain, both as representing the aristocracy and most successful of the Nordic races, and as constituting the only seriously dangerous obstacle...