Word: win
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...friendly conversations with French Foreign Minister Georges Bonnet, youthful, good-looking Joachim von Ribbentrop, the Reich Foreign Minister, pointed out Germany's deadly fear of Communism and her desire to see a stable government in Spain-i.e., to see Generalissimo Francisco Franco win the Spanish War. M. Bonnet got a quibbling answer when he asked Herr Ribbentrop point-blank whether Germany supported Italian claims to Tunisia (see below...
Johannes Stark is a crusty old "Aryan" German, whose researches in physics were good enough to win him a Nobel Prize (1919). For a long time he has whooped up the merits of hardheaded experiment as against those of dreamy theory. Last spring, in the British journal Nature, he succeeded in getting published a manifesto entitled "The Pragmatic and the Dogmatic Spirit in Physics" (TIME, May 23). In this he declared that the Jews-e. g., Einstein-have always tended to be theorists and dogmatists in science, that their influence is evil. The editors of 'Nature pooh-poohed this...
...Bruins whitewashed Detroit 2-0 last night in their fifth shutout win of the season...
...Meredith '42 followed the tradition of his father, a former Crimson star and Olympic champion, when he sprinted to win the 300 yard run by a good five yards, after trailing only 20 yards from the tape. Meredith's time was 35:2. Fred Ulen '39 and Holmes of the Huskies were clocked...
...Shallow '40, hurled the 35 1b, weight 48 feet 3 and one-quarter inches to win that event for the Crimson. Gale of the black and red followed close with 47 feet 4 and one-quarter inches. Wiren putted the 16 1b. shot 41 feet 5 and one-half inches to better the mark of 39 feet 8 and one-half inches made by Art Mason '42, and take that event for Northeastern...