Word: wetting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...time Smuts joined the fighting the Boers knew their goose was cooked but meant to burn it to a crisp before they quit. With famed Guerrillas Botha, de Wet, de la Rey, they raided in mounted commandos, depending on prisoners for rifles, ammunition, clothes, often literally fighting to eat. The British took to burning farms, interning the women and children in concentration camps (20,000 of them died there). When the Boers took prisoners they swapped rags for uniforms, then turned the soldiers-loose. With a commando of 360 Smuts set out to invade the Cape, still hoping the Boers...
Many a vengeful Boer looked on the outbreak of the World War as a good chance to win back independence from Britain. De Wet and de la Rey led the revolt, roused nearly 12,000 Boers to their flag. But Smuts stood pat. The revolt was put clown at the cost of more than a .thousand casualties. When England urged the Union to mop up German Southwest Africa Smuts took fire again with Rhodes's great idea. Then, with German Southwest Africa mopped up. Smuts was given the harder job of absorbing German East Africa. Here he found...
Cubs 7Bees 2 Giants 4 Pirates 2 Cards 11 Phillies 6 Reds 9 Dodgers 6 Red Sox 2 White Sox 6 Tigers 7 Senators 1 Yankees-Indians Wet grounds...
Married. Dwight Filley Davis, 56, onetime (1925-29) U. S. Secretary of War, onetime (1929-32) Governor General of the Philippines, donor of the famed Davis Cup; and Mrs. Pauline Morton Sabin, 49, onetime Republican National Committeewoman, celebrated socialite Wet; in Manhattan. She is his second wife; he is her third husband...
...beauty of the King's course at Gleneagles was a dismal sight the day of the matches. Haar," an especially bad Scottish mist, swept over all 18 holes, limited clear vision to 100 yd. Because a postponement was not considered sporting, the golfers trudged wearily around, got soaking wet, wore fur mittens between shots. Caddies stood ahead as human signposts to mark the direction of the greens. To make matters worse, hungry birds had dislodged old divots in their search for grub, left a mass of cupped lies...