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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...long been resisted by France with her doctrine of "collective security," and of course by Russia. Dictator Stalin would be glad to sign an Eastern Pact with Germany but finds Der Fuhrer utterly cold to that. In the making of any pact for peace or war in Europe the weight of Britain in the scale of decision may well throw it one way or the other and last week the words uttered so casually by Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin were heavy with fate. He was speaking just after the House had endorsed his Rearmament program in its preliminary stage. Mournful...
...aged 22, a London newspaper reported that "the whole tribe of surgeons put in a claim for the poor departed Irishman and surrounded his house, just as harpooners would an enormous whale." But Byrne had arranged with friends to cart his body to the Irish Sea, to weight it and sink it in deep water. Hunter, a Scotsman, learned of this, pursued the undertakers, cannily bought the body from them for ?500. Now Charles Byrne's mounted skeleton stands in London's Royal College of Surgeons, next to the skeleton of a dwarf once named Caroline Crachami...
When Robert Wadlow was 9 years old he was taller than his father and could toss him around. He stood 6 ft. and weighed 178 Ib. The "express wagon" he played with was guaranteed to support the weight of three grown...
...continue its long, long victory streak when it faces the Crimson in a meet that is assuming the proportions of the Yale Bowl jinx . . . . the confident, Varsity grapplers face a mediocre Yale team on the Medford mat and Harvey Ross faces the best wrestler in New England at his weight in the Jumbo 118 pound matman . . . . the Polo team will also be at New Haven against the Elis...
...pound weight: Castle (Y), Brennan (H), Ballantyne (D), Safford...