Word: distressfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tall, tense, loquacious Farmer Campbell, queried last week in Los Angeles by newshawks, seemed puzzled. "I have a very high regard for Mr. Stalin," said he. "I consider him a real leader, perhaps the only man who can bring Russia out of its distress and turmoil. There must be some misunderstanding...
Papal sorrows: church difficulties in Mexico, Russia, Spain (see p. 15); economic distress throughout the world; the deaths of Cardinals Piffl of Vienna and Van Rossum of Holland...
...repeat, impossible conditions," growled General Litzmann. ". . . Meanwhile the distress of the times has grown so keen that in Berlin 193 persons committed suicide in October!" Interrupted another Red, "Ja, 193 persons-but not one pensioned general...
...reduce federal taxation by £1,600,000, including a one-third cut in the land tax, and a £500,000 reduction in the property tax. Set aside for Australian wheat farmers was £2,250.000 of which £1,250,000 will be spent to relieve actual distress, the rest to be a subsidy to help wheat farmers buy cheaper fertilizers...
...birth control methods. Gowned in a kimono of blue silk wound with an elaborate. flowered obi (sash) the Baroness said: "Birth control alone will not solve Japan's problems. They will not be met until the economic system is changed. . . . Birth control will lighten the burden of ignorance and distress...