Word: eves
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Congress wanted to know only one thing about President Roosevelt's relief plans for fiscal 1937. How many billions was he going to ask for? Last week, on the eve of his departure for Florida, he sent Congress his answer...
Harvard's varsity football eleven, 1936 model, will operate its offensive attack from a shift, Coach Dick Harlow revealed last night on the eve of spring practice...
...radio program with its star speaker, stubble-cheeked old George Lansbury, British Laborite, who will tour 20 U. S. cities during April and May. Other campaign plans: speaking tours by teams of pacifists; Peace Caravans of Youths; a monster demonstration of peace workers in Washington on the eve of the opening of Congress next year...
...course Ben fell in love with her, but she kept him at a platonic distance. Ben stood it as long as he could, then went abroad for a year's tour with his sister's fiance, Meredith, to get atmosphere for a really good novel. On the eve of their return Meredith died. Ben had one more catastrophe to lay to his conscience...
...allies were solely responsible for the War. But to readers who still took the unreconstructed view that the Western World had been invaded in 1914 by a barbarian horde, an Xerxes' host, Theodor Wolff's study of war origins would seem a surprisingly civilized Persian version. The Eve of 1914 let no unsuspected wildcat out of the bag but recounted in scholarly, Teutonic detail the train of gunpowder facts that led from 1909 to the explosion five years later. Laymen found it hard going, but historians hailed it as important, called it the best study of war origins...