Word: attempting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...foreign policy of His Majesty's Government, said: "I believe today as I have believed hitherto, that we shall best serve peace, we shall best serve the cause of freedom, if we keep out of Spain and maintain a policy of nonintervention, if we don't attempt to burn our fingers as other nations may well do." After this the temper of the House was shown by a vote of 317-to-141 favorable to the Prime Minister...
...keep the Chinese busy at one place, Kaifeng, while they suddenly last week resumed a halted offensive at another, this time along the Tientsin-Pukow railroad, 175 miles east of Kaifeng and 125 miles from the Yellow Sea. Japanese forces hurled themselves southward along the railway in an attempt to capture Suchow, strategic junction of the Lunghai and Tientsin-Pukow lines and main defense centre of the "Hindenburg Line." Furiously battling Chinese sought to stem the advance by hammering away with repeated flank attacks until some 30,000 were reported killed on both sides. By week's end Japanese...
...gallon in making whiskey," the House approved an amendment raising liquor taxes from $2 to $2.25 a gallon, which should bring in $25,000,000 a year, slapped import duties on pork and pork products which should bring in $5,000,000 more. Thereupon, after defeating one more woebegone attempt to slip the third basket back into the bill, the House passed it 293 to 97, sent it to the Senate...
...independence of Austria- guaranteed already by no less than seven treaties, to all of which Britain & France are parties. Herr Ribbentrop was said on the same authority to have replied that this was "impossible,"* and to have added that it might be best for Britain and Germany not to attempt negotiations until Germany had secured advantages she expected shortly to obtain elsewhere...
Best Crimson records were Al Labastie's two wins in the foil, Batchelder's two in the sabre, and Croach's two wins and a tie in the epee. The Varsity's closest attempt to a win was in the sabre which they dropped by only one point; the epee went to Yale 5 1/2 to 3 1/2, and the foil was a 6 to 3 sweep for the Elis...