Word: clearer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...days that they have been unable to form a Cabinet which can secure a majority in Parliament, last week amply showed his own feelings by asking van Zeeland to remain as Premier at least until the King returns from London. By then Belgian public opinion may have a clearer grasp of the issues-already this week prominent Socialists were agitating for van Zeeland to be formally reinstated as Premier-and the King may also call a general election. Although Rexist Degrelle is no doubt annoyed at his fascist failure to use the King, the handsome Rexist's loose mind...
...that the Communism or "Democracy" of Stalin "every month brings the Soviet state closer in essence to the fascist states of Italy and Germany," Mr. Lyons of the sweated East Side remains an apostle of radicalism. "The Leninist-Trotskyist-Stalinist methods of revolution . . . when history's record is clearer," will serve, he thinks, "chiefly as an object lesson how not to make revolutions...
...maneuvers around Wanpinhsien and Lu-kouchiao." These two centres soon saw pitched battles in which 16 Japanese and some 200 Chinese were killed, with Japanese artillery plunking poorly aimed shells, one of which landed in the empty bed of a local Chinese magistrate. Increasingly sharp fighting made it no clearer who were the "certain persons" who opened fire before the Japanese "fired first," but the Chinese Government at Nanking for the first time began acting as if it were ready for war with Japan...
High Pitched Whistle. In Spain it was clearer than ever that the extent of foreign intervention on one side or the other would decide the civil war. Except for the steady Rightist advance upon Santander, activity was at a minimum and correspondents had opportunity to fill in with colorful dispatches...
...simple troubles, and attribute the most charming reactions to them!" With a twinkle Wells implies: perhaps the Martians feel sentimentally indulgent towards us. Anyhow he still sticks to his hopeful story, Martians or no Martians: "A new sort of mind is coming into the world, with a new, simpler, clearer, and more powerful way of thinking. That I think is manifest. It has already got into operation individually here and there and produced a sort of disorder of innovation in human affairs...