Word: crosse
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hrer Hitler and his ally had a lot to talk about, because the Europe that spread before them is already at war. It is a war of words and nerves, a war fought with weapons so strange and novel that they make machine guns look like good old cross-bows-rolling barrages of slander timed to the minute; ceaseless bombardments of rumors, blankets of lies and alarms as blinding as poison gas; provocations exploding like mines before advancing troops; flank attacks of economic reprisals, feints with threats, promises, atrocities, radio broadcasts, newspaper assaults launched simultaneously and redirected at noon...
...preliminary races on last week's Hambletonian Day card, the horses were sent off by a new-fangled starting gate: ropes hanging down from a wire drawn high over the starting line. Drivers were permitted 15 seconds (tolled off by a phonograph record) to jockey for position and cross the line. Those who jumped the word "Go" were disqualified...
...selling price (98). Of this sum the Morgan firm received $66,000. From its 1% commission as purchasing agent for England and France Morgan & Co. got $30,000,000. All that ended when the U. S. entered the War, when Davison became chairman of the Red Cross War Council, and Stettinius became second assistant Secretary of War, when the U. S. Treasury took over the job of Allied banker...
...Republican Representative from South Dakota; of a heart attack, in Washington, D. C. In 1917 he voted against U. S. entrance into the World War, then left Congress to enlist as a private, in France won promotion to a first-lieutenancy, a wound stripe and the Distinguished Service Cross...
...Dangerous Corner), stood up to the almighty British Broadcasting Corp., calling it monopolistic and its programs a bore. Fortnight ago BBC commissioned a novel for serial broadcasting, 20 minutes every Sunday. Commissioned novelist: J. B. Priestley. The radio novel, Let the People Sing, was reported to be another cross-sectioning of British life like The Good Companions...