Word: wears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...majority of seats in the Grand Council (unicameral legislature). Last week another election gave the Fascists every one of the Council's 60 seats. Future business on the Council's agenda for October 1 will be to elect two Captains Regent for six-month terms. Both wear special uniforms and sit side by side on a double throne to denote equal authority...
...June festival celebrating the birthday of Patron George III. They looked at the playing fields where Waterloo was won, watched the fireworks, the traditional cricket matches, the river procession of ten racing shells. They were no end impressed by the strange little chaps who on this day not only wear their top hats but are allowed to don colored waistcoats and wear flowers in their lapels, to furl their umbrellas as only the members of "Pop" (the exclusive Eton Society) may ordinarily do. But the sophisticated observer last week noticed that there were fewer students about than ever before. Every...
Having punched the welterweight (147 Ib. maximum) crown off Barney Ross's head, Henry Armstrong, already holder of the featherweight (126 Ib. maximum) title, became the first fisticuffer in the long annals of pugilism to wear both crowns at the same time...
There are many kinds of school spirit. Some people wear huge W's on their watch fobs" some go to all the football games, and even contribute a fullback or two; many more content themselves with getting drunk when the occasion demands. Mr. Pereles did none of these things...
...frontal advance on Japanese entrenched positions was ordered by General Li Tsung-jen, but rather a series of sweeping side attacks, each more intense than the other, each spaced to give the Japanese scant time to recuperate from the last. The Chinese general hoped by these tactics to wear down the Japanese forces so that a general retreat would be ordered...