Word: lion
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...great Russian trading centre Novgorod was founded originally by Swedish corsairs; they pressed down the Dnepr River and into the Black Sea to trade with "Miklagarth the Golden" as they called Istanbul in their Sagas; and on Midsummer Eve, 1630 the greatest of Swedish kings, Gustavus Adolphus, "The Lion of the North," launched an invasion that swept irresistibly across Germany...
...your Sept. 4 issue . . . you report the tragi-comic account of a lion hunt aboard the Royal Netherlands liner Amazone, concluding your article by solemnly burying the beast...
...beast did not remain so solemnly buried. The unfortunate lion's body, completely denuded of hair and bloated to grotesque proportions, was washed up several days later opposite the coast guard radio station at Bethany Beach, Delaware...
...long as the theatre of war remains some 4,500 air miles away from India, Indians will probably show no haste in deciding to help the British Lion. Last week, however, the old bugbear of Russian expansion was looming in the North. There were reports of mobilization in mountainous, wild Afghanistan caused by the proximity of reinforced Soviet garrisons. Afghanistan is the northern gateway to India. From Shanghai came a story of Russian troops in China's Sinkiang Province and a fantastic suggestion that they might threaten India via the trackless 16,000-ft. high plateau of Tibet...
From New Haven comes the report that the Elis 10-7 victory over Columbia was a combination of breaks and the tamest Lion eleven in years. The Yale attack was sluggish, and the traditional passing strength never approached that of the Roscoe, Kelley, and Frank eras. A dogged Blue line and an unspectacular backfield won the game from a fumbling, mediocre Columbia squad...