Word: ring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Herren Hitler, Göring & Goebbels have been as reluctant as Mr. Untermyer to believe that TIME is dispassionate, fair. Despising a free-press, Minister of Propaganda and Public Enlightenment Goebbels barred the Oct. 23 issue...
...fourth day, Walter Biggar stepped to the centre of the arena to judge the champion steer. In the ring were four finalists-a Hereford, a Shorthorn, two Anguses. One of the Anguses belonged to Oakleigh Thorne. Mr. Thorne could not forget that no individual had ever won the championship twice, that his entry in the ring, Briarcliff Model, was heavier (1,217 Ib.) than was nowadays popular. Judge Biggar passed his sensitive hands over well-meated ribs, examined shoulders, circled again & again. Finally he pointed to Briarcliff Model. There was applause. By now Farmer Thorne was an upstart Eastern breeder...
...walls they behold enormous oil paintings of Bernadette Soubirous and her good works in life. Pope Pius XI enters, in triple crown and embroidered white cope, borne aloft on his sedia gestatoria. He proceeds to the altar, followed by cardinals, archbishops, patriarchs, bishops, monsignori and priests, who kiss his ring and the cross on his slipper. The air is heavy with incense...
...willful cruelty" to an animal the punishment will be two years in jail. Domestic animals may not be simply abandoned, nor may dogs be trained to chase cats, foxes or other animals. Dogs' and horses' tails cannot be bobbed. Bull-necked Prussian Premier Hermann Wilhelm Göring, leading spirit in the Nazi be-kind-to-animals crusade, was again drawn last week by German cartoonists receiving the Nazi salute from all sorts of animals and saluting them in return...
...semi-annual meetings of the National Academy of Sciences resemble a five-ring circus much less than do the gatherings of the less exclusive American Association for the Advancement of Science. But the Academy meetings are by no means sideshows. With a membership limited to 300, the academy enrolls the cream of the nation's men of science. For three days last week this cream and a few distinguished visitors assembled at Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, read 45 papers in Eastman Lecture Room...