Word: steals
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Belgian Congo will remain Belgian," affirmed Belgium's Minister of Colonies, Albert de Vleeschauwer, rebutting hints that Germany may get the Congo in the same way that she got Sudetenland (see p. 25). "We did not steal the Belgian Congo and nobody will steal it from us." Chimed Premier Paul Henri Spaak before the Chamber of Deputies: "The Congo belongs to us. Our rights to it are established and nobody can contest them...
Belgium did not steal the Congo. Famed for its Pygmies and the Congo River (longest in Africa, second longest in the world), the Congo, a dank jungle-about one-third the size of the U. S.-lying astride the equator, is valuable to Belgium as a source of copper, rubber, palm oil. The river mouth was discovered about 1482 by a Portuguese, Dioga Cào, but for three centuries little colonization was done. In the middle 19th Century intrepid British explorers pushed into the interior and in 1873 famed Explorer David Livingstone died while charting the river...
...season outside its refuge, the first since 1911, limiting hunters to one horned animal of either sex but permitting the use of telescope sights on guns. Reason: too plentiful to please farmers, too tame for their own good, many pronghorns have broken bounds, roam nearby ranches at night to steal food...
Last fortnight Hyam Greenbaum, Musical Director of London's British Broadcasting Corporation's Television Orchestra, was acquitted at Bow Street Police Court on a charge of having stolen two books from Charing Cross bookshops. First steal: "Days of Hope'' (price 6/6); second steal: a book on Leonardo da Vinci (price 8/6). Witnesses supporting Conductor Greenbaum came near constituting a Who's Who of London's musical world...
Green, Don Daughters, and Ken Booths would be standouts in any line, but they are not all-Americans. Frank Foley, Torby Macdonald, and Austie Harding are good runners, passers, and pass catchers, but they are not Clint Franks. Any one of them has an equal chance to steal the show in this or any other game...