Word: englander
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Pittsburgh was reported swinging from isolation to hemisphere defense, but not yet to helping in Europe. Schenley High School, a famed local barometer, voted 55-45% against "cooperation" with France and England. Talk about the war-products possibilities of Pittsburgh's multifarious factories made labor recall war wages even as capital recalled war profits...
Thrifty Netherlanders own some $6,000,000,000 in gold, foreign exchange, foreign and colonial securities. But wily Dutch bankers have taken such precautions that scarcely a penny of the rich loot could fall into German hands. All but 5% of their gold is deposited in the U. S., England, South Africa...
Germany would then be on the Channel and nearer to England. The Belgian Maginot Line might be outflanked. If, however, Herr Hitler is thinking of the disadvantages of a Netherlands coup, they would overshadow the advantages. There would be 230 more miles of western frontier to defend. The Belgians have heavily fortified their frontier with The Netherlands, and invasion through The Netherlands to the ultimate goal of France and Paris is a circuitous route to take...
...different for different localities, but that from year to year the variation varies because the magnetic pole moves. No one knows why and no one knows precisely how much. Scientists do know that since famed Astronomer Edmund Halley first made his chart of variations, A.D. 1700, the variation in England has changed by more than 37°. Seaman-scientists of the Research are not sure they will discover the reason for the annual changes. But they will determine the amount of change by comparing their readings with those taken by the Carnegie more than ten years...
...slogan is MRA ("Moral Re-Armament"), gathered in the U. S. to launch a big push during "Moral Re-Armament Week" (May 7-14). As ammunition they had piled up quantities of stickers, posters, milk-bottle tops (see cut)-they distributed 5,000,000 of these last year in England-all marked with "the four granite standards of Moral Re-Armament (absolute honesty, purity, unselfishness, love)," supporting the letters...