Word: evens
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...photograph of the lady in tights, carrying my wife's name, is a fake, without even a remote resemblance to justify the blunder...
...with his chief: when the Maritime Commission first approached him, he felt that no question of foreign policy was involved. Then he realized he had spoken hastily, believed all officials should join in preserving the absolute integrity of the Neutrality Act, advised the Commission that there should not be even the appearance of any official step or course that might negate that policy...
...dull and darkly melancholy as a three-volume peasant tragedy has been the story of U. S. housing. Many a good citizen, trying to keep awake through a synopsis of the preceding chapters, has found his spirit saddened, his eyes closing, his head nodding. To maintain even its present inadequate housing level, the U. S. needs 525,000 new housing units a year for ten years. Under present conditions, the nation has no chance whatever of reaching this total...
...push, came and went. Belgian and Dutch nerves were calmed a trifle. It seemed certain that Germany had delivered no ultimatum to the Low Countries. Then what had the Nazis done or said to spread fear? The Cabinets of the two nations kept their own counsel, and, for once, even "well-informed circles" were singularly uninformed. Best and most tenable guess was made by a New York Times correspondent at Amsterdam...
...report voiced the hope that their plan would be ready to go into effect by the fall of '40. This would have meant a colossal job, for the project is huge in scope, involving not only the outfields of three or more complicated combined fields of concentration, but the even more staggering task of setting up tutorial staffs for them. With the tenure problem taking much of the Faculty's time, it is not surprising to hear that the "area" project will have to wait another year...