Wolverine the toughest fighter animal in rangy clash of giants
Grantland Rice quizzes Dr. Frank Buck about who would win in fights among humans and animals. Buck nominates the Wolverine as the world’s gamest fighter pound for pound, while noting animals like the grizzly tiger lion gorilla and python as formidable adversaries in hypothetical hand to hand matchups.
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Harry Greb
Gene Tunney
Jack Dempsey
Tom Gibbons
Jack Dillon
Tunney
Gibbons
Frank Buck
Greb
Stan Ketchel
Joe Gans
Buck
Michigan
Minnesota
Gopher
Frank
Mr. Buck
Louis
Dempsey
Corbett
Regional Powerhouses in Football Strength
An inquiry asks which U S region yields stronger football teams on average. It considers East Midwest South Southwest and Far West with emphasis on the Midwest including the Big Nine and Notre Dame.
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Midwest
Southwest
Big Nine
Notre Dame
Light of the World Lesson on the Blind Man
A religious study outlines Jesus as the light of the world seen through the man born blind. It contrasts four paths: guesswork vs God’s glory, obedience vs impossibility, confession vs controversy, healing vs hardening, urging faith in Christ and the transformative power of belief.
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Christ
Jesus
God
British Brides of GI Joes Learn to Act Like Yankees
London report on British wives of American GIs forming a Rainbow club in London to share experiences and plan for future citizenship. Attendance grew from 15 to 50 couples as they discuss postwar life and the process of moving to the United States, aided by an embassy counselor and peer support.
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London
Cupid
Sally Elting
Brookline
Mass
Rainbow Club
American Red Cross
England
U. S
Congress
Mystery Clock Built by Danish Immigrant
Christian Jensen of Utah constructed an eight foot mystery clock from primitive materials and hid its operation until his 1898 death. His son helped build it and later became a watchmaker but could not decipher the pulley weighted mo dular mechanism. The clock, which won a prize though it did not run, chimed quarter and hour measures on varied tones and showed sun moon seasons with a world time globe and a 24 hour dial, now preserved in a pioneer relics museum.
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Salt Lake City
Christian Jensen
Utah
Jensen
Family Driven War Service Joins WAC Training Center
The Tyler family of Baltimore amplifies their war effort with six daughters in the WAC, two brothers in the army, a brother in the navy, a WAVES twin sister, and two sons lost in service. Pvt. Michael Pettingill Tyler, from Baltimore, trains at the first WAC center in Fort Des Moines Iowa. Elmer Jr. died in a plane crash last December and Anthony perished as a Japanese prisoner last February.
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Fort Des Moines
Iowa
Tyler
Baltimore
WAC
Pvt
Michael Pettingill Tyler
South Pacific
Marines
Elmer Jr
Anthony
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Grantland Rice
Council of Religious Education
Jesus the Light OF the World
Scout Lessoner
Harold L. Lundquist
Dhe Moody Bible Institute of Chicago
Western Newspaper Union
Joseph
United States
Bfgoodrich
Wyiz
Sewing Circle Pattern Dept
South Wells St
Chicago
Kellogg’s
Will
Saratoga
New Orleans
Argonne
New Guinea
Salerno
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