Word: second
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long in coming, and they were sensational. They did not please either France or Britain. First, Herr Hitler notified Europe's chancelleries in the most direct manner possible that Germany wanted back the colonies she lost in the World War, colonies now largely held by Britain and France. Second, the Führer implied that Germany would stand by Italy in a Mediterranean crisis, declared that the two nations were determined to "defend our common interests together...
...miles) that, if draped across Europe, it would stretch from Moscow to Madrid. To compensate for its unwieldy shape, nature has given it a variety of riches: underneath its parched yellow soil in the desolate northern region lie the world's most valuable deposits of nitrate and the second largest known deposits of copper; its pleasant, well-watered, fertile central area, where most of its people live, supplies more wheat, cattle and wine than Chile can use; and its rain-sodden southern provinces are rich in lumber, much of them still virgin territory and inhabited by half-savage Indians...
...Music. Second-grade Noel Coward, but super Beatrice Lillie (TIME...
Last week at pastoral Oconomowoc, 33 miles west of Milwaukee, 42 of the fastest skaters in the U. S. whizzed around Fowler Lake. The first day 50 Oconomowocians watched them. The second day only 25 showed up. The rest of the week, even though it was free and only a stone's throw from the centre of town, the spectacle attracted fewer and fewer onlookers...
...freshman team goes into its second match at the same time as the varsity as it faces the Brown freshman team. Outstanding wrestler on the team is Thomas, a yardling who hails from Oklahoma. In his last match he succeeded in pinning his man as he led the team to a victory over Tufts. He wrestles 145. Redmon will take the 121 pound class, Blaine at 128, Stone in the 136 pound weight, Miles at 155, Tine entering the 165 pound weight, Robbins in the 175, and Aldrich in the top weight will make up the other members...