Word: breaching
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...ends in 1933. Everett Marshall, having assisted Evelyn Herbert to cuckold her high-born husband on her wedding night, departs with French troops to Africa and is killed off early in Act I. But Producer White has another expensive baritone, Walter Woolf. ready to step into the breach and lush, blonde Miss Herbert is happily reincarnated, thus holding the stage to the end. If you are patient and like Romberg music, you should enjoy yourself at Melody...
...politically prepared to govern themselves; 2) their freedom would upset the delicate balance of international power in the Far East; 3) U. S. citizens who have invested $197,000,000 developing the islands would be wiped out by the economic chaos to follow; 4) the U. S. would breach its moral trust to prepare the Filipinos for self-government; 5) Congress has no constitutional power to alienate U. S. territory...
When imams threatened to suspend services in the mosques and hide the prayer rugs, the Government announced that it was holding 400 brand-new prayer rugs in reserve, threatened to produce "newly trained muezzins who know the Koran in Turkish and are ready to jump into the breach...
When the U. S. Academies at West Point and Annapolis agreed last summer, after a three-year breach of athletic relations, to resume playing football with each other, they failed to settle the differences on which the breach was based. Navy like other colleges observes the three-year eligibility rule; at West Point cadets who have played three years of varsity football elsewhere are still eligible for the team. This gives West Point an obvious advantage in Army-Navy games. Navy has not won since 1921. In last week's game, closing the football season for the East, stout...
...York Medical Society. The grounds on which the Lowell Commission rejects the thought of socialized medicine are, moreover, precisely those of the Wilbur Committee's minority. These are that voluntary medical insurance systems tend to become compulsory and then result in mediocre professional service and a breach in the essentially intimate relations of doctor and patient...