Word: cased
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Problem. Hardheaded diplomats deplored the rocketing headlines over the case of City of Flint. U. S. diplomatic history is crammed with such cases; the U. S. has an impressive record of skill in litigation over them. The likelihood that the future will see more important issues made it desirable that this one should be kept in perspective. Quickly Government spokesmen made cold and quiet statements: although the U. S. position was that City of Flint's, voyage was legal, Germany acted according to international law in seizing the ship, putting a prize crew aboard, declaring the cargo contraband. True...
...traveling at "terrific speed", State Police, who are investigating the case, said last night. Wheeler's bicycle was found three quarters of a mile away from the site of the crash. Apparently the driver turned into a side road at this point and removed the wrecked bike from his front bumper...
Previous appeals, he maintained, have always been addressed to the Administration itself, and thus "got nowhere." As an example of this, Ross cited the case of the English concentrators' petition last June, which he said was rejected by President Conant. The Committee hopes that some more definite action may result from putting the protest before the Corporation...
...himself might his quietus make with a bare bodkin?". Vag tapped again--still no sound. Vag tried the door and to his amazement it was unlocked. Warily he pushed it open, and there was an eerie creak of rusty hinges. The room was almost empty except for a case of ancient folios thick with dust. In the middle of the floor lay a strangely familiar volume--a decrepit volume. It lay open, and to Vag it said...
...sense of humor bitterly tells him that even if endowed it might fall into the hands of Nicholas Murray Butler. "I am impatient and at the same time I do not know how to accelerate matters," says H. G. Wells. "I do not think this is simply a case of the distress of an old man in a hurry...