Word: rowes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Since 1932 Helen Jacobs has won the U. S. Singles Championship four times in a row (a record), but in each of these years she has been beaten at Wimbledon. This year, for the first time, she won there. If she wins at Forest Hills this week, she will at last be recognized as the ablest ten-nist of her sex in the world, a satisfaction that has eluded her for ten years. Last week the forecasts of tennis experts made her an overwhelming favorite...
...James Ramsay MacDonald would have recognized the unshaven, round-faced, wild-haired prisoner in the first row of the box as Grigory Zinoviev (ne Apfelbaum). once famed as "Bomb Boy of Bolshevism" and trusted colleague of Nikolai Lenin. The so-called "Zinoviev Letter," since proved a forgery, was used by British Conservatives to upset the first MacDonald Cabinet with insinuations that British Labor was taking orders from Moscow signed by Zinoviev as head of the Comintern bureau for making "The World Revolution...
...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...
...impracticable for hospitals to keep a row of wet nurses on call in an anteroom. Nevertheless mother's milk is often needed in a hurry for premature babies. Last week at the Mother's Milk Bureau of Manhattan's Children's Welfare Federation a group of medical men were shown a method of preserving human milk, an emulsion much less stable than cow's milk, for periods up to a year...
...week at Montreux, the British delegation stickled for what they called their "belligerent rights" in the Dardanelles, although the French and Greeks sharply reminded British Lord Stanley that the Briand-Kellogg-Pact-Renouncing-War-As-an Instrument-of-National-Policy "terminated belligerent rights." In the middle of a heated row tall Dr. Titulescu stalked in, denounced the British for "blowing now hot now cold" and rushed off to catch the next train for Bucharest "to calm Rumanian opinion...