Word: close
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Close to belligerent was another public statement, on Neutrality, by Mrs. Frank lin Roosevelt last fortnight...
...willingness, let us say, to enter into arrangements for, if not disarmament, at any rate a limitation of armaments." This did not mean that "appeasement" was to be abandoned-on the contrary, Mr. Chamberlain assured the House that "it is steadily succeeding"-but it was about as close as the Prime Minister has ever come to adopting the attitude of "deeds, not words" held by Anthony Eden and many of Chamberlain's Conservative and Opposition critics...
...Joseph Goebbels, once remarked that two newspapers are enough for Germany-Adolf Hitler's Volkischer Beobachter (National Observer) and Dr. Goebbels' Angriff (Attack). In such matters Dr. Goebbels is a man of his word. Since January 1933, more than 1,000 non-Nazi German newspapers have been closed or failed under Nazi pressure. At present German newspapers that cannot make a profit competing with the subsidized, official party organs must all close up and release their workers for "more useful duties," i. e., soldiering, digging forts, making guns. Last week another batch of twelve papers went over...
...winged serpent, now flank the doorway of the entrance of the Cloisters, a newly opened branch of the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Fogg Museum's newly acquired fresco has been transferred to a canvas and certain missing portions have been sparingly painted in. Yet, even at close range, the work unmistakably possesses the texture and rugged surface of fresco...
Williams is the only bright spot on the Penn horizon. Specializing in the 50 and 100 free-style, he ordinarily swims in both of these events and anchors the 400 relay in close meets. He is undefeated this year in these events, swimming the two lap event in the vicinity of 24 seconds, and the century in just under 55 seconds. Last year he led the league in number of points scored with 57 counters, followed by Charlie Hutter with...