Word: certain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Halifax, angered by the whole debate, replied for His Majesty's Government: "I entirely decline to see this country put in the dock of international affairs and held in any way to blame comparable to Germany for the tragedy into which the world has fallen. . . . I am quite certain that Hitler is very anxious for peace-on his own terms. I am not sure he is anxious for peace on terms which would make for the peace of Europe. . . . The argument tonight rests on the premise that there exists today a reasonably possible ground for successful negotiation...
Last week police searched the labyrinthine cellars of the Houses of Parliament for spies, even poked through the ventilating system and set a patrol on the roof. At 2 p.m. workmen and staff employes were sent home, and soon afterward certain brawny nobles staged a regular Rugger scrum for the tiny Peers Gallery. One peer was knocked down, although the Earl of Glasgow had cautioned beforehand: "I do hope your Lordships will manage to conduct yourselves with decorum!" Last measure introduced before the session was scheduled to become secret was The Gas and Steam Vehicles Excise Bill. Too decorous...
...shocked voice at the British War Office one day last week gasped: "Are you by any chance referring on a public telephone to the fact that a certain well-known personage has left these shores for a certain destination...
...fraternity men proceeded to pass resolutions: condemning Hell Week (initiation week) shenanigans, deploring "recent lapses from good taste on the part of certain fraternity chapters that have lent themselves to pictorial exploitation." Elected president of the National Undergraduate Interfraternity Council was a model boy, Michigan State's Arthur Howland, a student who is working his way through college by leading a dance band...
...food cooked by the Adams Kitchen; the Dunster Kitchen; and the Kirkland Kitchen, which serves the other Houses, is purchased by Westcott. He goes over the menus of the stewards of the three establishments, making certain that they contain sufficient Vitamin A and protein, and then contacts the wholesale dealers. If the lima beans, which might have been served in Adams House, cost too much, he substitutes another cheaper vegetable...