Word: stroke
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pool, also, was Ben Gazelle, Canadian back stroke and free style and British Empire back stroke record holder...
Into the Kremlin's gleaming white Hall of Soviets, where the Throne of Tsar Nicholas II has been replaced by a statue of Nikolai Lenin, crowded happily last week 2,500 Soviet Congressmen & Congresswomen from every part of European & Asiatic Russia. On the stroke of 5 p. m. a big-boned Asiatic in an unadorned Army tunic entered. Up leaped the 2,500 to cheer Joseph Stalin uproariously for 30 minutes and again at every pause during a two-hour speech in which the Dictator presented for ratification Russia's much discussed new Constitution (TIME, June...
Last month Publisher Hearst addressed to his striking Seattle employes a post-election endorsement of popular, victorious Franklin Roosevelt (TIME, Nov. 16). Last week, with a double master stroke, he capitulated to the demands of Newspaper Guildsmen, who had kept his Seattle Post-Intelligencer closed since last August (TIME, Aug. 24 et seq.) * and, on the principle of if-you-can't-lick-'em-hire-'em, put in as PI's new publisher Franklin Roosevelt's 36-year-old son-in-law John Boettiger. According to Associated Press, Mrs. Boettiger, the former Anna Roosevelt Ball...
...baseball circles last week the sale of the Browns was generally regarded as a master stroke on the part of shrewd General Manager Branch Rickey of the Browns' National League rivals, the highly successful St. Louis Cardinals. The St. Louis park in which both Cardinals and Browns play belongs to the Ball estate. The Cardinals, who attract bigger crowds on tour than they do at home, have long wanted to play night games, permissible in their league. Because night games have been banned in the American League, the owners of the Browns refused to install lights. Last week...
...lose against Notre Dame, assured of lionhood in his profession is the serious young man who became Northwestern's football coach last year by a stroke of pure luck...