Word: corridorful
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...life were mere earning and spending, there would be no excuse for college. As the picture fades farther and farther into the past, NRA, Manchukuo, the Polish corridor, dictators, inflation, tariff, open doors, war will be followed by new, more complex problems which must be tackled by men who must take up the unfinished tasks of leaders and followers of today. And as people of the country rise in gyroplanes or tune in a television station piece by piece that panorama of the fullness and breadth of the world will keep unfolding for the student who begins in college...
...Barthou's general diplomatic background. It was he as French War Minister in 1921 who wrote the military clauses of the Franco-Polish Alliance. This alone enabled the re-created Polish State to maintain itself against Soviet Russia and against Germany's desire to recover the Polish Corridor. In the whole post-War period up to last winter Poland was regarded as the fortunate and presumably grateful protege of France...
...nothing but Poland, piqued at not having been invited into Il Duce's prospective club and suspicious of France for joining without her, smoldered with resentment. Warsaw was thus in receptive mood when Berlin proposed Adolf Hitler's most statesmanly idea thus far, namely, that the Polish Corridor question should be put officially on ice for ten years by a non-aggression pact between the two countries. This was duly signed (TIME. Feb. 4). It profoundly vexed France and sent M. Barthou, who had just come in as Foreign Minister in the National Union Cabinet of Premier Gaston...
After the Assembly had disposed of such routine business as electing for its President Foreign Minister Richard Sand-ier of Sweden, a thoroughgoing Socialist, it began to appear that Foreign Minister Barthou might reach his first objective even sooner than he had expected. Three days of corridor-padding and bedroom-lobbying had produced the assurance that, when Russia's entry came up in the Council, Poland would vote yes, Argentina and Portugal would cast no ballots...
...night last week the Rajah's cousin stepped out across the Rajah's steaming acres. A snarling sounded nearby. Down a corridor of trees the cousin looked into the slavering jaws of 80 police dogs, charging out of the night. He began to run. In the morning trembling servants of the Rajah of Athgarh brought him several chewed tatters of his cousin...