Word: friendships
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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These awards, of 500 pounds sterling each, were established by the bequest of Lady Julia Lewisohn Henry "in earnest hope and desire of cementing bonds of friendship between the British Empire and the United States...
This leads up to the second and more important advantage of the Book Center. Its informality would breed friendship rather than contempt. Before long it would become the undergraduate center; debates, talks, and bull sessions would take place there. College students would be in fruitful contact with Harvard not two but twenty hours a day. No longer could George Ticknor's ghost say that "In Cambridge, the library is one of the last things thought and talked about...
Haakon VII of Norway thanked Sweden's Gustaf for calling the Stockholm parley, declared: "The cooperation and friendship of our States should be a model for the world...
...received from the British side, he persisted in his endeavors up to the last moment. Geniuses are strange creatures, and Herr Hitler, among other paradoxes, is a mixture of long-headed calculation and violent and arrogant impulse provoked by resentment. The former drove him to seek Britain's friendship and the latter finally into war with...
...talked for the best part of two hours of the iniquities of the Poles and about Herr Hitler's and his own desire for friendship with England. ... I augured the worst from the fact that he was in a position at such a moment to give me so much of his time. . . . He could scarcely have afforded at such a moment to spare time in conversation if it did not mean that everything down to the last detail was now ready for action...