Word: claiming
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After the British and French Ministers had conferred for another full day, the British Foreign Office announced this week, "It is still possible [to find a peaceful solution] by negotiation. Germany's claim to transfer of the Sudeten areas has already been conceded by the French, British and Czechoslovak Governments. But if, in spite of all efforts made by the British Prime Minister, a German attack is made upon Czechoslovakia, the immediate result must be that France will be bound to come to her assistance, and Great Britain and Russia will certainly stand by France." The Comintern station...
...German Army to 200,000 men if each of the other Great Powers would accept this same limitation, and he reminded Europe that his offer had been without takers. He recalled that Germany made a peace pact with Poland, a naval limitations treaty with Britain and renounced any claim to Alsace-Lorraine, shouted: "It is not one Führer or one man who is speaking-it is the entire German nation...
...hrer continued: "Our aims are not unlimited. . . . The Sudetenland is the last territorial claim I have to make in Europe, but it is one on which I shall not yield. . . . This Herr Benes was at Versailles and assured European statesmen that there was such a thing as a 'Czechoslovak nation.' Those geographically ignorant statesmen omitted to check up on his statements- instead of realizing that there is no such thing as a Czechoslovak nation...
...cream at the "Big Three", Harvard, Yale and Princeton. Out of its three hundred odd names, only 40 or so local boys are included, and many of these are not from our best known families. While such details as prep schools and clubs are included, most of the boys' claim to fame seems to be that they are 10th generation American. One man says he belongs to the 14th generation American, which is certainly tracing it back . . . and back . . . and back...
...Because the marble-smooth salt in the early morning is marble cold, cools friction-heated tires, lessens a driver's greatest fear: blowouts. Meteorologists also claim that a greater speed can be attained in the rare air of Bonneville (4,300 feet above sea level). A speed of 345 m.p.h. at Bonneville would be only 293 m.p.h. at sea level...