Word: blows
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Versailles. He has not won for Germany a single scrap of territory, not even Danzig, much less the Polish Corridor. If the Saar, which, before Hitler, was considered all but in Germany's bag, should vote next week to remain under League trusteeship or to join France, the blow to Nazi prestige inside Germany would be titanic...
...Newton Diehl Baker. New York Central's fast Midnight Express (Columbus-Cleveland) was running with double-header locomotives near Delaware, Ohio when it shot out of a cut-off junction, just in time to catch the Eastern Mail on the main line. It took a wrecking crew with blow torches ten hours to get Engineer F. E. Springer's body out of the overturned second locomotive of the Mid night Express...
...every opportunity the Roosevelt Brain Trust has been trying to intimidate Japan by bluff," boomed Rengo. "We have dealt a severe blow and stupefaction to the American Secretary of the Navy, Swanson. . . . The morale of Japanese sailors is far superior to that of American sailors. . . . Japan is ready to meet any contingencies and is sufficiently prepared for any changes arising from termination of the Washington Treaty. . . . The shipbuilding possibilities of America are far inferior to those of Japan,* and it would not be easy for the United States to rise to the Japanese level...
...against English Capitalism that the fatal blow must be struck! . . . Five per cent of Englishmen are the biggest property owners. They oppress not only the remaining population but also thousands of peoples of other nationalities- Indians, Persians, Chinese, etc.! Each English capitalist forces about 100 English workers and several hundred workers in England's colonies and the oppressed countries to drudge for him. . . . These enslaved people must unite! Yes, we must array ourselves against the English bourgeoisie. We must seize the English Imperialist by the throat and trample him underfoot...
Thus, with tart wisdom in his spoofing, Dr. Herbert Levinstein, president of the British Institute of Chemical Engineers, addressed last week at Bristol the Royal Institute of Chemistry. As a chemist, he scoffed at "the popular fallacy that to blow combatants to bits with high explosives is less bestial, wicked and cruel than to attack them by gas." President Levinstein strongly implied that rather than be blown to bits he would prefer to die gassed...