Word: tolles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...terrorism, but the British "betrayal" made many of them fighting mad. Indignant manifestoes were loudly cheered at mass meetings: "Palestine Jewry declares this betrayal policy will never materialize. Palestine Jewry will fight it with all its forces." In Jerusalem 5,000 demonstrators armed with stones battled club-swinging police. Toll: 135 Jews and five constables injured; one constable killed. Most Jews regretted the actions of belligerents, preferred to place their faith in passive resistance, and efforts to get world opinion and the League of Nations on their side...
With the 1928 June graduation about to wreak havoc in the ranks of Harvard's sturdy baseball standard bearers of the last three seasons, along comes one of the most powerful Yardling nines in years to lighten the toll of graduation wreckage. Thirteen wins in fifteen starts is their record...
Coach Stahl probably will not let Curtiss toll throughout the entire nine innings, and big Tom Healey or possibly Sophomore Charley Brackett will share pitching chores with him. Bob Fulton will be the starting backstop, but a rapidly-improving Chief Boston may see a bit of service, too. Fred Heckel will again get the starting call at shortstop in place of injured Fred Keys, and the rest of the regular lineup remains intact...
...Western culture must be carried-on by America after the next war," Bertrand Russell, world-renowned author and philosopher, said when interviewed last night. Russell, who addressed the Ford Hall Forum yesterday, predicted that the toll of another world war would be so great that "Europe will no longer count in civilization...
...things the convention showed: 1) there was still plenty of life in an organization which could take such a beating, 2) factionalism had taken a heavy toll. Its membership was down from a peak 381,000 to a claimed 172,000, money on hand from $428,000 a year and a half ago to $58,000 at last year...