Word: comely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Hayden admits that like most mortals he ages a little every day and hopes the process will continue for a long time to come. He does not, however, chew tobacco. Nor does he own a blue pencil, he reports, nor has he ever used this or any other kind of writing instrument to revise, delete or otherwise collaborate in a Vandenberg speech...
Last week all was beauty, bustle and boom at the National Automobile Show in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 16). But at the automobile capital, Detroit, there was trouble and promise of more to come...
...Warmly approved John Lewis' cry: "War will not come because the Congress may juggle the words in the Neutrality Act. War for America will come only as a result of developing circumstances which convince the American people that there is no other alternative. If this be true . . . it is then futile and absurd for the Congress . . . and the population of the entire country to become confused and convulsed in a discussion of the varying definitions of actual and assumed neutrality. . . . No other citizen has knowledge which equals the President's knowledge of the facts which concern . . . peace...
...Eduard Benes, who yielded the Sudetenland to Germany without a fight (TIME, Oct. 17, 1938), busied himself in Paris trying to get established a legal, provisional CzechoSlovak Government, told the Anglo-U. S. Press Club : "I believe that out of the turmoil of Europe will come a better society . . . a new moral and political renaissance, which naturally will take a very long time . . . will result in the restoration of Czecho-Slovakia." Last week, Dr. Benes broadcast from London, hoping to be heard by Czechs and Slovaks: "Today the retreat from the tyranny of Naziism is ended! Your place, (Czechoslovak citizen...
...past years Cloud and the Committee have had only about four or five struggling foreigners requesting aid for their English, but this year the number has grown to twenty. These students come from the Far East, Europe, and South America...