Word: closers
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...another Budapest announcement made it look as if Count Csáky's diplomatic visits are not always what they appear. During the past six months Count Csáky made frequent trips to Germany which were interpreted as meaning that Hungary was drawing closer to Germany. Last week the suave, ambitious, reckless, 45-year-old Count's engagement to beautiful, 28-year-old Countess Anna Maria Chorinsky was announced. Those trips to Germany, it appeared, were just to court the pretty lady at her family castle near Graz...
...figures for the 1939-40 season have indicated big increases in radio listening, generally traced to: 1) a war-inspired zest for news; 2) better shows. In January, tuners stuck closer to their radios than ever before, probably because of the U. S. cold snap...
After this, however, Harvard's luck changed end all of the remaining matches were lost except for an unexpected 3-0 win by Orrin Wilson '42. The margin of victory was closer than the score indicates, however, as in five of the nine matches, five sets were necessary...
...Ivan Papanin (who had made himself famous by drifting from the North Pole almost to central Greenland on an ice pan) to be head of Glavsevmorput'. Then the Soviet press started whooping up the drift of the Sedov as a national adventure story. Its goals: to drift closer to the North Pole than Nansen's celebrated Fram (1893-96); if possible, to reach the Pole (where Ivan Papanin planted the Red Flag...
...Experience has taught us that Latin peoples, yes, even the peoples of distant Japan, are incomparably closer to us in their attitude toward life and philosophy than our 'Germanic cousins' on the British Isles." But while Germany gained a theory it lost a favorite old slogan: "Gott strafe England!" The argument: "If God, on whom the Germans called in vain 25 years ago was really capable of exercising such a measure of punitive power, He would not have waited till 1940 to punish the British," stated the paper. "In those days the Germans relied too much...