Word: far
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...after leaving England and preyed on Union shipping, thus establishing U. S. claims against England. But the Washington Post, with delicious euphemism, seemed to state the President's purpose more exactly when it editorialized: "... This inconvenience and danger [to the Bremen] was merely a by-product of the far greater inconvenience and danger produced for the world by the policies of the German Government." >Grey Friday passed. A huge war map of Europe was hung on the wall in the White House executive office and Army & Navy intelligence officers stuck pins in it to keep the President...
...though the time may be distant, we can be of even greater help to a crippled humanity. . . . It seems to me clear, even at the outbreak of this great war, that the influence of America should be consistent in seeking for humanity a final peace which will eliminate, as far as it is possible to do so, the continued use of force between nations...
...geneticists returning from a convention in Edinburgh, four U. S. aircraft engineers who had been assembling U. S. planes for Britain. The sister (Maurine) and brother-in-law (Franklin Dexter) of U. S. Tennist Sarah Palfrey Fabyan were aboard. Since no U. S. lives were lost the incident was far less grave internationally than the sinking of the Lusitania (of 1,198 dead, 124 were Americans), but officials in Washington, D. C. expressed angry concern (see p. 13). Winston Churchill's staff sped plans to convoy all passenger ships with British men-o'-war. President Roosevelt discussed giving...
...Line, is rather a series of sunken forts with tank traps and interlocking underground tunnels, than a continuous defense bastion. First "contact" (man to man) fighting was known to be on German soil, in the hell-raked strip between the two Lines. For an invasion of Germany, France is far better off now than in 1914 for she holds Alsace-Lorraine with its high escarpments jutting east toward Germany above Strasbourg...
...this principle were established throughout the world, the freedom of our own country . . . would be in danger. . . . But far more than this, the peoples of the world would be kept in the bondage of fear...