Word: yd
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...every man limited to three quarts of water a day for drinking and washing, a loaf of bread and some beans. Eleven months ago a Rightist relief column from Grado on the west was able to chop through a corridor 18 miles long, in some places only 1,000 yd. wide, to bring men, munitions and food into Oviedo. Still besieged on three sides was Oviedo last week, and Miguel Aranda, now a general, was still its commander, but there was plenty of food in the shell marked shops, the soldiers had plenty of munitions. To reporters Commander Aranda explained...
Significance. Adolf Hitler, whose consuming passions are music, antiSemitism, Art, Architecture and Germany has never liked the gingerbread architecture of Berlin, this week concealed as much of it as possible with 40,000 square yd. of bunting tied with more than seven miles of gold ribbon. Not only were those buildings in the German capital most likely to be seen by II Duce wrapped up like Christmas packages, but Unter den Linden, the main thoroughfare, sprouted on each side colossal white pylons four rows deep and as high as the buildings behind them, each pylon topped with a glaring gold...
...several, least technical of which is that players must now wear numbers both front and back. Teams this year will not get a second kickoff. If the ball goes out of bounds on the first kick, the receiving team will put it into play either on its 35-yd. line or at the point where it went out. If a player kicks a free ball this season, it will automatically go to the opposing team at the, spot where it was kicked, thus obviating future controversies such as that which Yale's Larry Kelley provoked last year by "unintentionally...
...Ralph Flanagan, Miami free-style star, his third A.A.U. mile championship with a new world's record of 20 min. 42.6 sec., bettering Jack Medica's 1934 mark by 15.2 sec.; his second 440-yd. championship with a U. S. and meet record of 4 min. 46 sec., setting along the course a new 300 yd. U. S. record of 3 min. 14.2 sec.; his second 880-yd. championship in 10 min. 19.2 sec.: in Chicago. Backstroke Champion Adolph Kiefer lowered his own meet record in the 100-meter championship...
During the qualifying tests for a limited-displacement race, Pilot Lee Miles was doing about 200 m. p. h. 50 yd. from the ground. Suddenly his wing folded. Hurtling end over end, the fuselage pitched in a long arc into a clump of trees. When witnesses got there, Pilot Miles, who was officially declared the U. S. racing champion of 1934, was dead...