Word: swansea
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Empire was still tough. "The British Empire is so strong that it could not be defeated. Let those ponder who say we have grown weary with age and feeble in power. So they thought in 1914. They had a rude awakening," thundered Sir Samuel Hoare, Home Secretary, at Swansea. At Durham, Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir John Simon reminded that the Empire's financial strength is "an important weapon of defense" and at Leeds, Colonial Secretary Malcolm MacDonald keynoted that Britain's "will to victory . . . cannot be equaled." Air Secretary Sir Kingsley Wood opened a new aircraft...
...vicious spout swung inland from the bay off Swansea, Wales, struck a hillside, gutted a row of houses, washed 8,000 tons of earth, rock, debris and human beings to the bottom of the slope. Once a waterspout hit a White Star liner headon, doused the crow's nest, slopped tons of water on the decks, wrecked the bridge and chartroom, flooded cabins. Five years ago Bordeaux housewives reaped a harvest of small fish swept up from the River Garonne into a water twister, carried inshore and deposited wriggling in the streets...
...joint concert to be given at Northampton on Saturday evening, the Harvard and Smith Glee Clubs will combine to sing "Elegischer Gesang" by Beethoven, "Swansea Town" by Holst and "Cum Sancto Spiritu" by Bach...
...other arrangements of Holst to be rendered include: "The Shores of Harvard," "A Dirge for Two Veterans," "I Love My Love," "Hecuba's Lament," "Swansea Town," "Before Sleep," and "Psalm CXLVIII...
Harvard received $100,000 in the will of Elizabeth R. Stevens of Swansea, Mass., which was offered for probate in Taunton yesterday. Mrs. Stevens, widow of Frank S. Stevens, banker, manufacturer, and "forty-niner", died at Swansea on February 4. Bequests were also made to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Mt. Holyoke College, and Wellesley College...