Word: englander
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Britain is a sea power. The Kaiser would not sign a treaty giving Britain undisputed naval supremacy over Germany, but the Führer signed (and probably is not stupid enough to break) the treaty under which his navy is restricted to 35% of Mother England's (TIME, June 24, 1935). That was a trade. The gain to Britain, which the late Joseph Chamberlain would have considered stupendous, even with aircraft altering the picture, was something Neville Chamberlain bore well in mind at Munich. The vital lifelines of the British Empire, spanning the globe (see map), are still defended...
With the possibility of the New England Intercollegiate soccer championship in the offing, a strong Harvard varsity soccer team will clash with Amherst this afternoon at Lord Jeffery's frontier settlement...
...England shore dinners and broiled chicken a specialty. Location is convenient to University theatre on Church Street...
Although no New England station has carded today's broadcast of the Harvard-Army game, Tod Husing's broadcast may be picked up over either New York or short wave stations...
...electrical experiments; an essay on the more worldly of Poor Richard's maxims, such as "There's more old drunkards than old doctors," or "Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards." Genuinely exciting is the 200-page record of the growing antagonism between England and the colonies, as Franklin witnessed it in London, where as a colonial agent he fought the Stamp Act, worked desperately for a reconciliation, appeared before Parliament to be baited by stupid and arrogant Tories, and was finally harried out of the country, cursing the "extreme corruption . . . in this rotten...