Word: colossuses
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...with Washington than years of diplomatic talk. Last week as Nazis goose-stepped in Paris, the Mexican Government, which has played with or tolerated every ism in the atlas in the past few years, suddenly decided that it had better get in step with the Colossus of the North, if & when the Colossus decides what it is going...
...delegates, meticulously mispronouncing their names. He would knock on the door, say "I'm Hull of the U. S." and begin chatting. Astounded, then charmed by this informality, delegates from the banana republics laid aside their silk hats and silk manners, forgot their jealousy and hatred for the Colossus of the North...
...such a try, Britain's new Admiral of the Fleet is a daring, dynamic commander. Tall, hawk-browed Sir Alfred Dudley Pickman Rogers Pound, 62, commanded the Colossus at Jutland. Six years ago, calling (like Winston Churchill) for Britain to rebuild her fleet, he predicted just what he had on his hands last week: "a hell of a fight...
Notre Dame de Sacre Coeur was designed in simple, flowing lines by Georges Serraz of Paris, a grey little man who is considered France's finest religious artist. Cost of his colossus was 1,000,000 francs, raised during the past two years by the energetic cure of Le Mas-Rillier. Holding the child high in her arms and gazing down, the Virgin of Le Mas-Rillier will face south over 100 miles of the French Alps. Her weight: 440 tons. Her height with foundation: 174 feet...
Confidence in her sincerity is the United States' primary need in South America at the present stage of the game. While recognizing the commercial and political advantages of close relations with the "Colossus of the North," most Latin-American states are shy from bitter lessons of the past. This traditional distrust can be undermined only by acquainting the South American with the true nature of this nation, and such an acquaintance can be imparted by no better means than education in domestic colleges...