Word: burnes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Yale, Princeton, and other large college libraries are leading the fight to save the collection of the Hapsburg emporers from destruction. The librarians hope to purchase the Semitic collection, part of the world famous theatre collection, and all non-Nazi material before Hitler's men burn...
...circulars, illustrated only by a picture of a harrassed mother clutching a baby to her bosom, reminded the reader of "the shot heard round the world," and exhorted him to "burn up the wires with telegrams to your Congressmen" and demand that the "Rights of Labor" and "Human Brotherhood" be maintained...
...Todd's conclusion in regard to the less savory pastimes was that the "red lights burn brightest in deteriorated or neglected neighborhoods,"* that the cure is not moral indignation, nor character education, but better living conditions...
...grateful tributes of the merchantmen, then outrages them by seizing their men to fill out his crew. In another 48 hours the phlegmatic Englishman takes his first prize, a French merchantman that nets him ?5,000, storms.a French battery on the east coast of Spain, raids overland to burn a coastal vessel moving down a sheltered lagoon, on a night attack, steals another prize, lying under the guns of Port Vendres and winds up his exploits-for which he is severely censured by his admiralty-maneuvering the Sutherland close to shore and shattering infantry columns with his broadsides...
...policy of His Majesty's Government, said: "I believe today as I have believed hitherto, that we shall best serve peace, we shall best serve the cause of freedom, if we keep out of Spain and maintain a policy of nonintervention, if we don't attempt to burn our fingers as other nations may well do." After this the temper of the House was shown by a vote of 317-to-141 favorable to the Prime Minister...