Word: finally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nerve against nerve this week. The stakes, piled mountains high, amounted to nearly everything Europe values in this world. The grimly staking chiefs of the Great Powers passed from words of War and Peace to final drastic acts involving the lives of millions. With men saying good-by at railroad stations all over Europe, joining the colors with the strange, excited high good humor of people consciously risking death in great numbers, President Roosevelt suddenly drew attention to the Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928. Under that agreement, nearly every nation in the world, including Japan, Italy and Germany, has renounced...
When the Prime Minister, still secluded, signified that he would fly back to London Saturday morning but would first make a final contact with the German Chancellor, tense correspondents chorused, "Is it to negotiate, or will Chamberlain only see Hitler to say good...
...nationalities of Czechoslovakia, I am speaking here only for the oppressed Germans ..." Herr Hitler went on, thus putting a damper on rumors that he had faced Mr. Chamberlain with Polish and Hungarian claims as well as Germany's. "Upon the threats of Great Britain and France, Herr Benes finally admitted that the Sudetenland must be ceded to Germany," continued Hitler. "The play is now ended. . . . THE FINAL GERMAN DEMANDS CONTAIN ONLY WHAT BENES HAS ALREADY PROMISED...
...Masks. Both the French and British Governments this week were rushing the final stages of their long-announced plans to evacuate millions from Paris and London at the outbreak of war. Giving the British Government credit for its work in providing the 40,000,000 gas masks, which this week are ready, Professor Haldane insists that, while these are all to the good, evacuation is all wrong. Every park, garden and open space in London and other British cities should immediately be dug up in a system of twisting trenches, he declares. After puting on their gas masks, millions...
...answer to last year's petition of 192 upperclassmen for interhouse debating, the House Chairmen yesterday announced the final plans and regulations for carrying through this plan...