Word: campaign
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's offensive had the sweep of a great military campaign. Resistance to it had a kind of heroism in its stolid refusal to give way to alarm. As the week wore on the grand strategy of the Axis high command became clear. Main objective was Danzig, on which the German press poured a steady fire. But as Grant pounded Richmond while Sherman swept through the South in a wide circle, the great offensive in the war of nerves was launched simultaneously on two fronts: Poland was attacked by the main army while in the Balkans assaults, feints...
...could accuse Dr. Ley of hating beauty . . . [but] WHAT IS THE USE OF THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST WASTE IF THE FASHION INDUSTRY DEVALUATES TEXTILES? . . . Other nations elect queens with beautiful legs, beauty queens, naked queens, but Germany honors women with many children and therewith honors a beauty that is uninfluenced by any fashions...
...begged South China to break with the Central Government, make peace (under himself) with Japan. Wang sniped at his old rival Generalissimo Chiang Kaishek, whose tremendous popularity, along with Wang's lack of it, has undoubtedly been the main incentive for the would-be-puppet's campaign. Himself a Cantonese, Wang subtly appealed to his fellow Southerners on the grounds that South China, in olden times, was independent. What took the sting out of his subtlety was the fact that South China, in not-so-olden times, was the birthplace of National Savior...
...dispensation because: 1) it is a scriptless, impromptu quiz show, hence cannot be rebroadcast later, like more predictable shows; 2) it is the star item on the Blue network, long considered a weak sister to NBC's Red network and lately the subject of the briskest build-up campaign in NBC's history. But to the suggestion that other big eastern shows now being rebroadcast might be recorded for the West instead, NBC's retort was: "Would you rather kiss a girl or her picture...
Professor Curtis' outburst was applauded by many another science teacher. This week a group at Columbia University's Teachers College, led by venerable Progressive Samuel Ralph Powers, began a campaign to reform U. S. science teaching. They published the first of a series of Rockefeller-financed books intended to make Science more sense-making to students: Life and Environment, by Oberlin College's famed Botanist Paul Bigelow Sears...