Word: backed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What worried Londoners more than anything else last week was the fact that the British Isles went back on winter time and on that day came a 4:30 p.m., instead of a 5:30 p.m., blackout. That produced plenty of grumbling about stale air inside shuttered offices and renewed demands that the blackout be modified. Blackout grumbling caused London's first sizable wartime strike. Four hundred fifty trolley busmen refused to work until their schedules during blackouts were eased. By & large, however, life in England after two months was adjusted to wartime conditions...
Sure to prove a cockpit of lively squabbles is the new Assembly. Its Opposition majority was already claiming last week that the Assembly is sovereign and ought to supplant Congress. The Government minority cracked back that the Assembly has no authority to do more than draft a new Constitution, which Cuban voters may accept or reject. With such prime ingredients for revolution brewing, the Cuban pot simmered this week close to a boil...
...first and only "dash to the Pole." He left the land in March, trekked across the pack ice with only two Eskimos, two sleds, 26 dogs. He claimed that he reached the North Pole on April 21, spent two days taking observations of the sun. On the way back he had a dreadful time, spent the following winter in a cave...
...last lap, alone except for his Negro servant and four Eskimos. His claim: That in five days he covered the remaining 150 miles to the Pole (April 6), made the necessary observations, left a fragment of the flag and a message in a snow cairn, traveled the 150 miles back to the camp at 87° 47' in 56 hours...
...ebullience was gone, old "Doc" Cook still held high his white head, as he chatted with Sir Hubert Wilkins. His talk was still of exploring. Said he, holding his fingers to his temples: "Most of all we have got to explore this area here-that lies back of the eyes and between the ears. When that cranial sphere is fully explored men will have no reason to fight wars...