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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...finals. In a week, by winning four matches, he had made his name the biggest news in his sport. A large crowd had gathered to see the annihilation of the other finalist, slim, grinning towheaded Sidney B. Wood Jr. of New York. Wood had played Vines twice before and beaten him once. The night before the final he told friends that he "had Vines's number." Nobody was much excited when Vines lost the first set?his slow start had been the familiar prolog of his brilliance. He started the second set by winning two games in cyclonic style. They...
...cricket team of Burnley, England: a game from Raw Tenstall, 222 to 116, in the course of which Bowler Joseph Boon twice performed "the hat trick...
...Twice in three weeks has the hoary House of Commons been publicly outraged. No sooner had horrified Briton's gooseflesh subsided over Laborite John Beckett's "Rape of the Mace" (TIME, July 28) than the nation shuddered again. One Elijah Sandham, Liverpool Laborite, stood up in the House and said...
...from three days of motoring through rubble-strewn villages, much of the relief work having been curtailed as unnecessary, the government's chief problem lay in trying to persuade inhabitants to return to their homesites. Not only the fresh and fearful recollection of over 2,000 killed and twice as many injured, but the fact that the torn earth still quivered ominously from time to time made the villagers of Melfi, Puglia, Avellino, Ariano skeptical about going home prematurely...
Hardly had the dirigible been made fast to its special new $750,000 mooring mast,* when Commander Burney observed that a vessel twice her size with a minimum cruising speed of 85 m. p. h. would be needed for regular traffic...