Word: felling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Hitler returned from his triumphal tour of Czecho-Slovakia last March, he was high-spirited, buoyant, talkative. Arriving in Berlin, he summoned Josef Lipski, solemn-visaged Polish Ambassador. Whipped up to "a mood of immense elation," Hitler chattered cheerily on his trip, his impressions of conquered Prague, suddenly fell silent and announced ominously: "The time has come to flatten out the obstacles to the permanent friendship of Germany and Poland...
...fighting was that, where they met on equally favorable ground, Bolivia's German-trained divisions were roughly handled by Paraguay's French-trained Army. Sick of the war, Bolivians were made sicker by bad times. Bolivia holds 15% of the world's tin supply and output fell from 43,300 tons in 1929 to 25,000 in 1935. Tin makes up 70% of the value of Bolivia's exports...
...Jayvees and third Varsity finished come four and six lengths behind respectively. The Varsity boat, trying too hard to build up an early lead, hit rough water and fell to pieces. They lost an early lead by splashing on the recovery and shipping a good deal of water...
...curtain fell yesterday on another Harvard teaching career when Louis Allard, professor of French, gave his last lecture in French 7, "Romanticism and Realism in French Literature of the Nineteenth Century." For years Professor Allard has been one of the lecturers in French 6, popular French literature survey course. Yesterday he delivered in French his last remarks as an active teacher...
These typify the way industry fell for Whalen sales talk. Typical of the gamble exhibitors are taking, General Motors reputedly put $5,000,000 into its building. Since G. M. will sell nothing on the premises, it is investing only in advertising and goodwill. Whether this huge expenditure (plus the cost of operating the exhibit) will pan out is General Motors' worry. Grover Whalen sold it to them. The same may be said for many another individual display. Several industries, such as railroads, glass,* aviation, utilities and petroleum, recognizing the fact, got together on cooperative exhibits where the heavy...