Word: closeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...fact about himself and probably 99.99% of U. S. citizens: "This nation will remain a neutral nation, but I cannot ask that every American remain neutral in thought as well. Even a neutral has a right to take account of facts. Even a neutral cannot be asked to close his mind or his conscience...
...Army maneuvers, the German military attache asked what use Poland, with its terrible roads, had for tanks. The Marshal smiled and said: "Ah, but you have good roads." The Marshal is a scholar-technician rather than a leader-drillmaster. Like France's Maurice Gamelin, he is an admirer and close student of Napoleon. In his study are two busts and four portraits of the Little Corporal. Softspoken, shy, gentle, he cannot be profane or brutal when he tries. The Army...
April 28. In Berlin Hitler said to the Reichstag: "During the whole of my political activity I have always expounded the idea of close friendship between Germany and England. ... I am now, however, compelled to state that . . . war against Germany is taken for granted in that country. . . . The basis for the [Anglo-German] naval treaty has been removed. I have therefore resolved to send today a communication to this effect to the British Government . . . . As regards German-Polish relations . . . some months ago I made a concrete offer to the Polish Government: 1) Danzig returns as a free state into...
Alligators, hippopotami and petrels all have muscle valves which close their nostrils when they enter water. Seals and polar bears can also pull in their ears. But man is "a terrestrial being," with no "musculature for closing the nostrils, and keeping water from the nasal cavities and their appurtenances." Thus wrote Dr. Hermon Marshall Taylor of Jacksonville, Fla. in the Journal of the American Medical Association last week, agitating against humans participating in that No. 1 Florida pastime: swimming. Contrary to popular belief, he said, not contaminated water but plain swimming, even in pure pools, is responsible for the boils...
...charter. This maneuver threw the actor-stagehand brawl into the laps of the A. F. of L. executive council. But no satisfactory compromise was forthcoming. To touch off a jurisdictional strike that might shut down Broadway's eleven shows, cripple night clubs and radio stations over the land, close Hollywood studios and possibly (through I. A. T. S. E.'s control of projectionists) every cinemansion in the U. S., only a suitable "incident" was lacking...