Word: bring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...chief source of manpower must, in future, be Italy. This is not entirely a blessing. There are already 60,000 Italians fighting in Spain and thoughtful Rightists agree that it will never do for II Duce. who told some of them they were going to Italian East Africa, to bring them home. Settled in Spain, even half the Italian expeditionary force would create a grave agronomic problem. But whether that problem would ever arise: whether the Right will, as its spokesmen declare, achieve the fall of Madrid and a military victory by the end of 1937: whether that would really...
Professed purpose of the peasant action was to protest the "dictatorial and bureaucratic system," to inaugurate a genuine democracy. Its immediate purpose was to force Marshal Smigly-Rydz to bring back to Poland Wincenty Witos, founder and head of the Peasant Party. Witos, who fled to Czechoslovakia to escape sentence inflicted by Pilsudski's courts for opposition in the 1930 election, is the peasants' living martyr...
...crazy." Shouted Stringfellow: ''It might work. You invented this battery, and in your mind there is information about it that no one else has. Will you let the stall give you written questions about the battery every Saturday afternoon before you go home? You could bring the answers in in writing on Monday morning...
...tribulations of a Scotland Yard operative, Tracy Egan (Don Ameche). who has fallen in love with Myra Cooper (Loretta Young), whom he met while liberating his repressions on a Continental holiday. Just as the guns begin to pop, Tracy gets a phone call from the Yard ordering him to bring in Miss Cooper, suspected of a jewel robbery. The local military party, whose uniforms resemble those of the Canadian Mounted Police, are also looking for a jewel thief-an English girl who visited a bank vault before the looting started, got away with the "Peralta diamonds." Further and frequently risible...
...China, great stamping ground of missionaries, has long been dear to the Baptist hearts of the Rockefellers, and the current destruction wreaked by the Japanese on many human and institutional beneficiaries of the Foundation must inevitably bring dismay to its trustees. Nankai University, whose Rockefeller-aided science building was destroyed by Japanese shells a month ago, was given $45,000 (Mex.) last year. Besides aid to a handful of universities. Rockefeller projects in North China included mass education, public health, rural reconstruction...