Word: nosedness
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¶ In the single sculls final, long-nosed Henry Robert Pearce of Australia, rowing with the quick savage stroke that won for him in 1928, built up a two-and-a-half-length lead. Five hundred metres from the finish, Bill Miller, 26-year-old oarsman of Philadelphia, pulling with...
Died. Monsignor Ignaz Seipel, 56, former Chancellor of Austria; of diabetes, tuberculosis and pneumonia; in a monastery at Pernitz, Austria. A professor of moral theology and political economy when the War began, he was Austria's Minister of Social Welfare when the Monarchy fell (1918). By using all his fine...
Trapdoors in the floor of the airship were slid forward and athwartships, exposing grey space through a T-shaped aperture slightly larger than the dimensions of the plane. From the rear cockpit Lieut. Daniel Ward Harrigan signalled with his hand. An electric winch began turning. Slowly the trapeze descended, lowering...
Naturally the No. 1 delegation is paramount, representing 430,000,000 people out of the total Empire population of 450,-000,000. The No. 1 delegation is headed by Lord President of the Council the Rt. Hon. Stanley Baldwin, Leader of the Conservative (majority) Party in Great Britain. With benign...
From Ithaca, comes a Varsity crew, coached by Wray, which has had the honor of being nosed out by only three feet by Yale, and which, though really a distance crew, has proved its ability to hit a high stroke for short races.