Word: beste
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusions: the "peace for our time," which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed he took home from Munich, was at best only an armistice; notwithstanding post-Munich pretenses, war has been postponed, not really averted, to a moment more unfavorable than ever for the democracies; if French and British diplomatic forces were not completely routed at Munich, they were certainly obliged hastily to retreat and sue for what President Roosevelt later called "peace by fear...
...capital of the Soviet Ukraine, is an industrial city specializing in farm equipment. Instead of growing only wheat, the Ukraine's rich, black soil now produces sugar beets, flax, cotton. Fully 96% of the land is now collectivized. From the Ukraine come some of the Soviet's best-known figures: Alexei Stakhanov, author of the speed-up system, Maria Demchenko, champion sugar-beet raiser, Valentin Kataev, Soviet author. The Ukrainian language, outlawed by the Tsar, is not only now allowed but fostered...
...comparison between last year's team, possibly one of the world's best, and this year's outfit demonstrates only too clearly to the spectator the appalling ups and downs invariably associated with a coaching career, and the very great effect a change in the quality of material can have on the success or failure of a team. The manner in which Coach Ulen has weathered his sudden change in fortune has marked him as a credit to the coaching profession and to his college...
...Best scene is the dream scene where at the court of the czar, Ethel Merman and Jimmy Durante stop the show indefinitely...
...next competitive examination for students under the program, covering the second grade of progress in the reading, will be given on April 15. Two prizes, of $100 and $50, will be offered for the best papers...