Word: counters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...very day that a German major-general urged the wholesale peaceful invasion of Latin America by the cultural prophets of the German Reich, in the economic sphere the United States launched its first major counter-attack against Nazi penetration of South America. The United States-Brazil trade agreements put a sudden halt to the growth of the German economic domination of Brazil, and provided a strong impulse to the growth of closer economic alliance of the United States with its Latin-American neighbors...
Biggest dog-show in the world is Cruft's of Great Britain. The first show was given n 1886 by Charles Cruft, who began his career serving behind the counter of a dog-biscuit shop. Ever since Queen Vic toria entered her collie and three Pomeranians in 1891, the show has been held ach year in Islington's mammoth old, red brick Royal Agricultural Hall. At its olden Jubilee Show three years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...
...needing only a three-point second place to clinch the contest with the required 38. If Powers had won, if Crimson sprinters had placed better, if our breastrokers had been stronger--in other words if Harvard had finished one place better in any event to secure that precious single counter, the score would have been 38-37 for the Ulenmen, for the seven-point free-style relay fell to Harvard, too late...
...spokesman "Papa Franz'' Boas, 80-year-old Columbia University anthropologist. Papa Franz, a Jew of German birth, has been attacking German racial theories for a quarter-century, and after the rise of the Third Reich his books were burned at Kiel. The Boas committee drew up a counter-manifesto condemning the Stark statement from beginning to end, decrying the "ruthless political censorship'' which is crippling science in Germany...
...over-the-counter trading the company's bonds broke from 103 to 56.75, its common stock from...