Word: soils
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...182Germany's Baron Gottfried von Cramm & Henner Henkel, playing their first tennis tournament on U. S. soil: the U. S. doubles championship, 6-4, 7-5, 6-4, defeating Defending Champions Donald Budge & Gene Mako, who had beaten them in two previous encounters during the current season (Wimbledon semi-finals and Davis Cup interzone final); at the Longwood Cricket Club, near Boston...
...southwest corner of Idaho is a rugged land pocked by ancient volcanic activity. Once a desolate region covered by sagebrush, it has been reclaimed by irrigation. The soil, largely volcanic ash, is fertile with minerals. The rock beneath is honeycombed with caverns and air pockets, the result of ancient, igneous intrusions...
Gibraltar. British Laborites failed last week to arouse His Majesty's Government with the disclosure, not challenged in the House of Commons, that German technicians have now installed for General Franco a semicircle of heavy howitzers on Spanish soil commanding Britain's Gibraltar. When Labor M.P.s got to pressing His Majesty's Government uncomfortably, one of the most remarkable diversions in Parliamentary history was created by new First Lord of the Admiralty Alfred Duff Cooper who drawled: "It may interest the House to know that a British ship was captured [by the Rightists] while attempting to enter...
...half unconcernedly behind Cornell's John Meaden, sprinted easily down the homestretch, passed him and won by 10 yds. for a new meet record (i 152.2), almost three seconds short of the world mark. Thus completed was Oxford-Cambridge's first clean sweep on U. S. soil. The apple-cheeked, bespectacled, India-born son of a Methodist missionary, Godfrey Brown trains strictly the year long, made the Cambridge varsity team his freshman year. He is "reading" (majoring in) English and History at Peterhouse, writes sport for various Cambridge undergraduate papers. Speediest Briton at every distance from...
President Cianetti was born and reared a soil-grubbing peasant, while Dr. Ley worked originally as a chemist. Cianetti is ebullient, fiery, humorous-Ley full of German mysticism and plodding pugnacity. In a recent two-hour address to proletarians at Hamburg, Labor's Ley key- noted : "Those German employers who dare to rate machines higher than men are going to be given plenty of opportunity to arrive at a contrary opinion in concentration camps!" In Italy's present production spurt toward rearmament, Labor's Cianetti dashes incessantly about the kingdom, addressing workers' meetings, hearing grievances...