Word: prizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were still aboard early this week when the City of Flint, flying the Swastika, still manned by a Nazi prize crew, put into Tromsoe, Norway, seeking supplies. Nazi Consul Herr Henrik Jebens boarded her, saw the Americans, talked to the Germans. Uneasy Norwegian authorities furnished no supplies, four hours later escorted her out to sea again...
...Deutschland, which put aboard her 38 survivors of the British freighter Stone-gate, torpedoed earlier by Deutschland. Finding that Flint carried oil in large quantities, the German boarding officers asked Deutschland's commander what to do. He kindly decided not to sink her, but to put aboard a prize crew, send her to Germany...
Deutschland vanished and the prize crew, armed with pistols and daggers, sailed Flint northeast, through icebergs and bitter cold. They made a Danish flag, painted out the U. S. flags on the ship's side, altered her funnel, changed her name to Alf. They got jittery watching for British warships, put a time bomb in the engine room to blow up their prize rather than surrender her. After eleven days they arrived, not in Germany, but at Tromsö, Norway, flying a German flag. Authorities here saw through Flint's disguise, let the prize crew take fresh water...
Like most Big Ten teams, it had a line that averaged 200 Ibs., had reserves three deep. Among its backs were two streaks who could run 100 in 10 flat. And the prize Host Yost wanted most to show off was its 194-lb. halfback, Tom Harmon, who at 20 and only half way through his second year in a Varsity jersey, has been hailed as the No. 1 footballer of the year...
...Stockholm last week the Nobel Prize award committee announced prizes in Physiology & Medicine for 1938 (deferred from last year) and for 1939. The physiologist honored for 1938 was Professor Corneille Heymans of Belgium, who showed that breathing is affected by chemical changes and pressure variations in the blood acting through nerve impulses. These discoveries have been of great value in treating respiratory disorders...