Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hole-in-one is luck, since the golfer is playing for the hole. To get the ball in the cup is his aim and objective, ergo, how can you call it an accident...
Biggest argument of Tory M.P. is that Great Britain's democracy is threatened by this concentration of family, political and economic power. More impressive than its argument, however, is its roll call of big British businessmen who are also members of Parliament. Examples...
...time passed the meaning of the treaty abrogation was more openly acknowledged. The nation was exhorted to call upon its reserve of selfdiscipline, to remain calm and optimistic. The U.S., it was argued, would probably not dare impose a trade embargo. If the worst happened, Japan could prepare for it in the next six months. And early this week anti-U.S. posters appeared in Tokyo streets, announced: "Britain, America and Russia are our common enemy...
...illustrate news stories about the adjournment of Congress, Washington cameramen went to call on the Vice-President's secretary-wife, Marietta Rheiner ("Ettie") Garner, 61, hoping to find her packing. Mrs. Garner had not yet begun to pack, but amiably dug up a few old grips, let herself be posed for pictures, then turned the tables...
...ballroom life-Electrophor polka and Motoren waltzes, written for dances of technical students; Aesculap polka and Paroxysmen waltzes, for young medicos. A quadrille on English themes contained the tune of Just Before the Battle, Mother. The pieces, some performed for the first time in the U. S., did not call for waltzing in the streets, but they suggested that the Library of Congress had invested $700 wisely...