Word: blacking
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Gulf of Finland and the Gulf of Riga; 2) Russia agrees to increase her annual trade turnover with Estonia and to give Estonia facilities in case the Baltic is closed to her goods (i. e. by Germany) for trading with the outside world via Soviet ports on the Black Sea and White Sea; 3) Russia and Estonia undertake to defend each other from "aggression arising on the part of any great European power" (i. e. Germany); 4) the Pact "should not affect" the "economic systems and state organizations" of Russia and Estonia...
Turkish Angle. The big diplomatic finesse which the Soviet Dictator was quietly developing in Moscow last week concerned the question of the Dardanelles. If the Turks should permit a British and French fleet to slip into the Black Sea through this narrow waterway, the Allies could then firmly bolster up Rumania and go far toward bluffing the Balkans into halting their supplies of raw materials now going regularly to Germany, notably Rumanian oil up the Danube...
...caught between two eras, risking a split personality as he is buffered back and forth between the old and the new, not knowing where to turn. We have in mind a man we saw at Sunday dinner. Dressed in a new tweed jacket, of whalebone pattern, and wearing the black knit tie, he pulled from his pocket a large and faded red bandana, and just a little self-consciously wiped his nose. -The Daily Dartmouth...
...with the countryside which they inhabit. But his is a new kind of landscape, one bristling with cranes and pulleys, a valley of machines whose wheels seem as if they might revolve for all eternity. And out of this maelstrom chimneys point upward like lank, black limbs. Breughel, in his work, brings out the essential sameness of man and his natural environment; Fiene shows that man is degenerating into an unimportant phase of a new and artificial environment...
...perhaps envisages a Nazi-dictated peace which would reduce the Allies to vassal states, which would impose upon them the Fascist ideology, which would force the acceptance of gangsterism as the usual method of international negotiation. Fascism and the use of might would sweep over the world like the Black Death; and in such a world, a free and democratic America could not survive...