Word: strings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...telephone call from the Brazilian Foreign Office at Rio de Janeiro to Lima, Peru, 2,400 miles away, unofficially but effectually wound up the Eighth Pan-American Conference one afternoon last week. The Brazilian delegation at Lima was told it could string along with the 20 other American nations in ratifying the "solidarity" declaration over which the conference had higgled for a fortnight. It was the most noteworthy achievement of the meeting and it did a little more than any agent or agency since Nature to bring the Western Hemisphere together...
...border, French Premier Daladier announced that he plans to visit Tunisia and Corsica in January. French submarines and an airplane squadron, ostensibly on "routine duty," appeared in Tunis and the Tunisian armed forces of 25,000 men were held ready to man the Little Maginot Line, a string of small forts, pillboxes and airplane landing bases dotting the long Tunisian-Libyan border. To Paris French Resident-General Erik Labonne sent a report recommending strengthening of defenses, strict limitation of Italian immigration into Tunisia...
...pick to coal again, tramped to the mine mouth. There they stepped aboard the "cage," a rickety elevator which dropped them 700 feet to the mine-deep, starting point of the sloping shaft which runs out under the sea. To reach their diggings the miners boarded a "rake," a string of small narrow, flat cars fitted with wooden benches, which are let down the ten-degree slope by a wrist-thick steel cable...
...fourth successive triumph for the Stahleymen, who won the contest without the services of several first string men. Coach Stahley used various combinations and gave his reserves a chance to see much action...
...Vassar and Amherst College glee clubs and the Pierian Sodality of 1808 collaborated on a concert of American music in Poughkeepsie Saturday night. Harvard's string orchestra of 20 picked Pierian musicians, conducted by Malcolm H. Holmes '28, was joined by Vassar in rendering Carl P. Woods' "Winter Winds" and by Amherst in Robert Delaney's "Night...