Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...history the sporazum was blocked by determination of 7,500,000 Serbs (Serbian Eastern Orthodox) not to share Yugoslavia's rule with 4,500,000 Croats (Roman Catholic), and the tenacity of Croatian struggles, the ruthlessness of Serbian repression, gave Croats the reputation of being one of the worst-treated minorities in Europe. The rise of Adolf Hitler quickly changed this, not only by making German Jews a still worse-treated minority, but by making the sporazum a big factor in Axis policy. Facing Germany and old Austria in the North, Italy across the Adriatic (and presently in Albania...
...last week Student Elkins liked the looks of Merry Caroline, a cheap plater running in the second race at Chicago's Washington Park. He decided to couple Caroline with Joy Bet, the worst nag (and therefore probably the longest shot) listed for the first race. He wired his selection (and $2) and went about his chores...
...supply Portland's sawmills for 20 years. Despite that loss Oregon is still the leading lumber State, still has the nation's largest remaining stands of commercial timber. Last week the No. 1 lumber State, parched by weeks of hot weather, was on fire again in the worst blaze since Tillamook. At Saddle Mountain, at Wolf Creek, at Dutch Canyon, west and north of Portland, palls of smoke and ash hung over the rough country, thousands of men manned the lines with hoses, axes and bulldozers as the red tiger of the forests once more devoured Oregon...
...wheat crop of seven to eight billion poods (4,213,183,333 to 4,815,066,666 bushels). The wheat is not yet cut and threshed, and there may be a big discrepancy between grain in the fields and grain harvested, for the Russian peasant is currently in the worst dither since the forcible collectivization of the land...
...London's Victoria Station injured three. Late that night a wooden swing bridge across the Leeds & Liverpool Canal was demolished, the front of a Liverpool post office blasted into the street before the eyes of watching police, and a nearby street mailbox set afire. Thus ended the worst day of terrorism since the Irish Republican Army which claims to be the only legal Government of Ireland declared "war" on Great Britain last January. The casus belli was the British refusal to recognize a united Ireland and withdraw troops from the British-controlled six northern counties...