Word: finales
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reality. The realities of war are suffering and death. No nonsensical tirades could conceal the fact that 17 days after Germany announced Warsaw had fallen, citizens were dying in that city, bombs were still falling, shells were still shattering the suburbs. The radio announcer, awaiting a death as final as that of Premier Calinescu or General Fritsch, could expect no state funeral when he fell. There were none for the 1,000 civilians whose bodies, he reported, were lying in the streets. When the radio broke down under gunfire, he announced that it would soon be fixed, like...
Last week as the curtain came down on the Republic of Poland, the quarrel of Colonel Beck and Marshal Smigly-Rydz on a railway platform in Rumania might well have opened its final scene. Three weeks before, they had been the responsible rulers of one of Europe's major powers- its sixth in population and area. Proud men, independent and successful, they had reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered...
...figures released yesterday by University Hall cannot be taken as final because many students change their courses between now and the first week in October, but they are definite indications of trends...
During the final examination rush last year, when it was learned that Spencer and three other assistant professors in the department had been given "concluding appointments," nearly 200 undergraduate English concentrators petitioned the University administration for a public explanation...
...almost complete enrollment of the College is 3,552 as compared with last year's final figure of 3,640. The Graduate School of Arts and Sciences shows a slight increase in enrollment with 917 this year as compared with 880 in 1938-39. This increase shows a steady rise in Graduate enrollment during the past four years...