Word: border
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...need to recall to you the fear of those days. . . . Supplies in their basements. . . . Plans to get their fortunes across the border. . . . Hideaways. . . . Homeless boys. . . . Farmers who banded together with pitchforks. . . . Powerful leaders of industry and banking . . . came to me in Washington in those early days of 1933 pleading to be saved. . . . We met the emergency with emergency action. But far more important than that, we went to the roots of the trouble and attacked the cause of the crisis. We were against revolution. And, therefore, we waged war against those conditions which make revolutions - against the inequalities...
...lies not in its immediate effect, but rather as a herald of things to come. He indulged in a bit of rightful bragging and pointed to the defeat of oath legislation in Connecticut. For the benefit of Mr. Curley he pointed out that freedom still lives across our southern border under the leadership of "Connecticut's Yale-educated governor...
...introduced by another U. S. physician, Reginald Heber Fitz, 40 years later. Alumnus was taken directly from Latin about 1696, and in 1882 Doglover Albert Payson Terhune's mother, Essayist "Marion Harland," first used alumnae. Politics produced Abolitionist, anti-liquor, anti-saloon, anti-imperialist. From the Southwestern border filtered Spanish words like adobe, alfalfa, arroyo. Also listed as Spanish in origin, on H. L. Mencken's authority, is the U. S. poker term ante...
...stroke than by steadiness and tactical skill. Her most dependable stroke is a forehand slice, taught her by Tilden. She places it with magnificent depth, tantalizing accuracy. She trains by skipping rope, drinks sherry, wears a hair net, uses little makeup, no red nail polish. She owns a Border terrier named Laetitia of Crendon, likes amusing socialites, has thus far shown no romantic interest in men. She plays bad ping pong. Helen Jacobs is not a Jew. She weighs 124 Ib. She walks with her feet pointing straight ahead. Next winter, she will live in Buckinghamshire, England, write a biography...
...fatal pincers . . . German solidarity must not be impaired by religious worry . . . Communism will not be struck in its deepest roots by military force but through the resurrection-in Jesus Christ-of Europe in general and our Fatherland in particular. . . . During the last few months within Germany's own border the Catholic Church, Pope, Bishops and Priests have been brought in slanderous connection with Bolshevism, and books, periodicals and newspapers have spoken of the brotherhood between Rome and Moscow. Spain has opened the eyes of those who can still...