Word: european
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have been in 1935, but today the rising might of Germany is more clearly visible. The European balance of power is being further & further upset, and this is the traditional signal for British policy to shift so as to find itself at the new fulcrum. In exalted London circles of birth, finance and politics last week novel and weighty things were being said. One of these was that, sooner than most people think, His Majesty's Government may be reluctantly obliged to aid in slaking German thirst for more territory. In the city, London bigwigs were to be heard...
Some geologists, notably the European, Wegener believe that South America and Africa were once connected as part of Gondwana land, which extended half way around the Southern hemisphere. The majority, however, contradict the theory, saying that the South Atlantic deeps are too old for the continents to have ever been connected...
Sirs: Congratulations on the Man of the Year. Please print some of the howls that come in; they ought to be good. For a man who has not had the advantages of education in diplomatic skulduggery as practised in the majestic precincts of European governments, Haile Selassie has done a fine job of out-diplomating the diplomats...
...were arriving in Manhattan, London and Paris heart-shocked by the altitude; nausea-shocked by the fleas, flies and filth; sleepless from malaria and dysentery; jittering and at such low ebb that their journalistic employers sent them to secluded rest homes. On the subject of altitude able United Press European News Manager Webb Miller vividly said: "You would lie down, thoroughly fatigued, your heart would palpitate and you would get scared, thinking you were going to die. Then would come fits of weeping, and then fits of passionate anger. It was a God-awful experience...
Tonight is one of those rare occasions when the Opera House will open its doors. The event is the introduction of the Jooss European Ballet to Boston in a group of three original numbers, the most significant and interesting of which is "The Green Table", a parody on the League of Nations type of conference. It was awarded first prize in the last International Competition at Paris and has attracted considerable attention both here and abroad...