Word: fasts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years was applauded wildly and ecstatically by most Germans. He lifted the nation from post-War defeatism. Under the swastika Germany was unified. His was no ordinary dictatorship, but rather one of great energy and magnificent planning. The "socialist" part of National Socialism might be scoffed at by hard-&-fast Marxists, but the Nazi movement nevertheless had a mass basis. The 1,500 miles of magnificent highways built, schemes for cheap cars and simple workers' benefits, grandiose plans for rebuilding German cities made Germans burst with pride. Germans might eat many substitute foods or wear ersatz clothes but they...
...recovery from 1933, commodities kept pace with business revival until the index hit 88.3 in April 1937 (v. 59.6 in 1933). Then, after Franklin Roosevelt remarked that certain prices were rising too fast, commodities hit the skids of Depression II. Since last summer when the industrial and financial tide turned again, commodities have kept right on sagging...
High in the Andes dwells the vicuña, an undersized member of the camel family. Fast as the antelope, agile as the chamois, the goatish little vicuña, which lives only at altitudes over 12,000 ft., has to be killed to be captured-otherwise he spits in your eye and runs away...
...much gaiety. It is a desperate gaiety; this party has to be better, livelier, than last night's because this is a bigger night; and last night's had to surpass the one before, and so on. Somehow, everything is wrong. Somehow, the excellent orchestra is too loud, too fast. Somehow, the floor is too crowded, the decorations too garishly bizarre...
...team of only fair potentialities, the Hoddermen have reversed these expectations in both of their games to date. Last Tuesday, without the services of Captain Austic Harding they beat a Junior Olympic team that had outplayed Yale a week before, and Saturday night they walked away from a fast Southern California six by a score...