Word: woman
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With their broad faces cracking wide in happy smiles one hard-raining evening last week, groups of loyal Dutch gathered under dripping trees at The Hague around a plain, white-painted house which anyone is free to approach. It was the Royal Palace of that good woman Wilhelmina of Orange-Nassau who for 46 of her 56 years has been Queen of The Netherlands...
...reply from Stanford gives the gratifying information that two official undergraduate Delegates have been appointed, namely, Mr. William Foster and Miss Betty Grover, I am afraid that the thought of a young woman Delegate had not be entertained when the invitation was sent; but as Harvard College has no undergraduate women students and as all arrangements for hospitality are within the monastic walls of the residential houses, I fear it will not be fessible to entertain any but men Delegates...
...managed to save enough out of his $10-a-week pay to send Susan, one of his five sisters, to college. Sister Susan has always appreciated the education her brother gave her, has conscientiously kept up her interest in national affairs. She fought in the front line of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, spoke out for the League of Nations...
...gave this decision impetus was that when Helen Wills's coach at last arranged a game between the two girls. Helen Wrills won 6-0 in seven minutes. What gave the decision its subsequent importance was the odd chance that Helen Wills went on to become the greatest woman player in the world and that Helen Jacobs' salient characteristic is a dark unshakable determination...
...flyer to finish was Brooklyn's William G. Warner in a Standard Vultee. But the race was won neither by Pilot Warner nor by Pilot Louis Brewer, the only other male left in the race. For the first time in six years the Bendix Race went to a woman- Louise McPhetridge Thaden. Flying with Co-Pilot Blanche Xoyes in a Beechcraft high-wing biplane. Pilot Thaden started several hours after Warner and Brewer, shot across the U. S. in 14 hr. 54 min. 49 sec., beating by 3 hr. 30 min. the women's East-West record...