Word: calls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...used to call so pretty...
...Tiso's telegram was to the week's third hero-Adolf Hitler, self-appointed foster-father of Europe's orphan minorities. Hero Hitler considered the message important enough to call an immediate conference at the chancellery with Foreign Minister Joachim von Ribbentrop. Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring was ordered to cut short his vacation on the Italian Riviera. Then the familiar squeak of the tightening Nazi vise 'began to be heard in Slovakia...
This week, before they returned to Stephens from their 4,500-mile, fortnight's junket, half the girls went to Texas for some unfinished business: a date with Texas Agricultural and Mechanical College. The boys of Texas A. & M. were to call for them in Army trucks...
...last fortnight Dr. Robert Gordon Sproul, president of University of California, received a telephone call from his friend Mortimer Fleishhacker, a regent of the university and board chairman of the potent Anglo California National Bank of San Francisco. He had heard, said Fleishhacker, that an unnamed bank had offered Dr. Sproul a job. "Will you take the presidency of Anglo California," asked Mr. Fleishhacker, "at $50,000 a year...
...energy to be absorbed if we strike an object while running 25 miles an hour is just the same as if we fell from a height of 20.9 feet ... it is possible to survive this impact although it is just about the shock limit for the human body ... we call this quantity . . . one Danger Unit...