Word: fates
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Clark Fork curve through the rocky canyons; to the dunes of Cape Cod and the bayous of Louisiana. It was exploratory, adventurous, inventive, inquisitive, it was the acceptance of struggle and hazard-it was anything except a resigned or a bitter acceptance of a real or a mythical fate...
...hard for him to decide intelligently when the experts disagree. When doctors fall out, who shall decide the patient's fate? Senator Borah seems to argue just as convincingly as the President. Hearing both sides over again only seems to confuse him. Yet for his own peace of mind, he must come upon some positive opinion...
...effect of the war on Asia, although not clear, is bound to be tremendous," he began. "Already, Ghandi, while offering support to Britain, has raised the question of Britain's war aims and the question of the fate of India and her possible independence after...
...General Fritsch got into action before Warsaw so quickly was just one mystery surrounding his death. How a top-ranking General happened to be leading a reconnaissance party-as military headquarters announced he was-was another. Some clue to the possible fate of General Fritsch was contained in reports that Great Britain by offering to negotiate with "any honorable Government in Germany," had focused attention on the one element which could seize power from the Nazis-the powerful old Junker Reichswehr, whose leader had been Werner von Fritsch. The most, important question in the strange death of Fritsch seemed...
Author Milne further objects to the lopsided fate that lets his plays (Mr. Pim Passes By, etc.), novels and essays (which he prefers) be forgotten and has made children's classics of When We Were Very Young and Winnie-the-Pooh. Sick & tired of his short-pants reputation, he sticks out his tongue at the tots and says rudely: "I am not inordinately fond of or interested in children; their appeal to me is a physical appeal such as the young of other animals make...