Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Little Richard Kleberg was brought to King Ranch at a tender age and grew up there, rough-riding over its vastnesses, clanking his spurs through the palatial ranch house, "Santa Gertrudis," which would put most Newport mansions to shame. His father sent him to law school at the University of Texas, after which he took up his duties as a King-Kleberg, helped manage the ranch from 1911 to 1924. Since then he has been the Kleberg front man. His younger brother Robert Justus Jr. sees to the King's 125,000 head of livestock, including the Klebergs...
...primarily industrial Catalonia, her population swollen with refugees, her few railroads and highways glutted with military supplies, the possibility of famine was so urgent last week that Barcelona's press bureau sent cables to U. S. Leftist sympathizers appealing for food. Should France and England grant belligerent rights to Rightist Spain-an increasing probability-and thus enable Generalissimo Francisco Franco legally to blockade Leftist ports, little food from the outside could get to Leftist Spain...
From Breclav, now the German Lundenberg, 204 Jews were expelled by Austrian Nazis fortnight ago. For a few days, food was sent from Sudeten towns. Then a desperate Jewish mother smuggled her six- month-old child back into Breclav and the Germans cut off all food. "We are lying beneath hedges," a Jewish mother, big with child wrote to Prague. "We have no money and our only clothing is what we were wearing when we were expelled...
...Bengal Junior Varsity aggregation will arrive in Cambridge sometime this morning for their clash with the Harvard J.V.'s at 2 o'clock. Two Varsity "red-shirts," end Gene Loveit and center Lewis Harder, have been sent down to bolster the J.V.'s for the clash...
...early years of 1900, Thorp took up newspaper work and umpiring football, as well as some coaching, upon his gradution. A heavy, forceful man, his quality of saying the right thing at the right time has made him the top in the umpire world. He is always sent where the going is toughest. "I got to do Colgate-Holy Cross the day after tomorrow," he said. "I think they have had a little trouble there in the past...