Word: brinkly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mussolini's signature to the Italo-Anglo-Franco-German Four Power Pact, as High Commissioner in Syria by firmly squelching a revolt of the Druse tribesmen which had got his predecessor into serious difficulties. Eight years ago Henry de Jouvenel predicted that 1935 would find Europe on the brink of another...
...Carrel wants to set up a dictatorship of doctors over the entire human race and appoint himself chief Mussolini of the group. Well, well, what a grand and appropriate finis that would be to a civilization already doddering on the brink because of having been established almost entirely on false premises since the dawn of history...
Exceedingly devout, Dr. Schuschnigg, although hospitalized, insisted on arising three times to pray at his wife's coffin. Meanwhile, since Austria has hung on the brink of revolution ever since the assassination of Chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss (TIME, Aug. 6), hoary President Wilhelm Miklas in consternation summoned the Cabinet, while Vienna buzzed with rumors that Nazi agents had tampered with the steering gear of the Schuschnigg automobile...
...sets his masonry upon the brink Of lamentation, out of his window peers Toward waves that ever rise only...
Situated on the brink of the Pacific ten miles from the Mexican border, San Diego is a bustling city of 150,000 whose chief assets are one of the world's finest harbors, the adjacent rich resort colony of Coronado, the biggest West Coast naval station and Army, Navy and Marine air bases. From Chicago the city's resourceful businessmen borrowed their reason for having a fair this year. It was to represent, approximately, "four centuries of progress" dating from 1542 when Portuguese Navigator Cabrillo's ships entered the harbor. More realistic were San Diego...