Word: faites
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Other defendants at the Reichstag trial, all of them acquitted, were still held in prison by the Hitler State last week while their relatives waited in dread lest they be confronted at any moment with another Nazi surprise fait accompli...
...terminology. The election, so goes the story, was a tragic farce, the picture of a people baring its neck to the heel of a despot. The claim is easily substantiated, but it is a close approach to stupidity to inveigh particularly upon a means when confronted by a commanding fait accompli. For, through one argument or another, Herr Hitler has crushed out party and state lines within Germany. He has, temporarily at least, a nation united behind him as its sole ruler. And if I read anything into Mr. Hitler's past, it primarily that Mr. Hitler has learned well...
...have called for them, are a necessary alternative. If Harvard and Yale show determination in establishing and recognizing such teams, Dartmouth, Brown, and the smaller New England colleges must eventually follow suit. Then the necessary corollaries of a Freshman team and a more complete Varsity schedule would be a fait accompli. In any case the H.A.A. should look to the waning popularity of their most publicized, most remunerative sport, and give a thought to the future of a game that is admittedly "more fun to play than to watch...
Under the direction of Serge Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra will play this evening at 8 o'clock at Sauders Theatre in Cambridge a program consisting of Mozart's ""Eine Kleine Nachtmusik," Dolius' "Brigg Fait," Wagner's "Forest Murmurs" from "Siegfried," Wagner's Overture to "Der Fliegende Hollaender," and Sihelius' Second Symphony...
...Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson dashed off note after stern note. Last week news of Shanhaikwan's fall was brought to "Woodley," Mr. Stimson's home, just as he was tendering a reception to the diplomatic corps. Over cakes & tea Japan's new fait accompli was discussed-but nothing more...