Word: generalizes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Australia's 245-pound, athletic former Attorney General Robert G. Menzies (pronounced as spelled, not mengies as in Scotland) was in a big hurry to get to Parliament House in Canberra one day last week. The United Australia Party was meeting there to choose a leader to succeed the late Prime Minister Joseph A. Lyons (TIME, April 17), and Mr. Menzies had reason to think he might be picked-which would mean that he would almost automatically become Prime Minister. In his great rush Mr. Menzies slipped, fell, sprained his arm. He finally appeared at the meeting with...
...days later Governor General Lord Cowrie asked him to form a cabinet. The big question was whether Mr. Menzies, who is forceful but not tactful, could get the conservative United Country Party to cooperate with the more liberal U. A. P. as Joe Lyons had skilfully done. As he began to line up a panel, again in a big hurry, he met with another accident which sprained his spirit...
...Shanghai's International Settlement, which the Japanese would like an excuse to take over, Japan's consul general, Yoshiaki Miura, paid a call on Cornell S. Franklin, Chairman of the Settlement's Municipal Council. For 17 months since Japan took Shanghai, said Mr. Miura, anti-Japanese newspapers in Chinese and English had been publishing matter highly offensive to Japan. It would be nice if they stopped. In a noteworthy display of the better-part-of-valor, Chairman Franklin "agreed to take appropriate measures"-suppress them...
...periods of sweeping change history is measured by days and hours, not by years. In the last weeks of the War events followed each other so rapidly that General Foch himself could not believe that the end was in sight. Only one month before the end, when he was launching what he called "the greatest of all battles," Foch was making plans for campaigns the next year. Then, in 300 hours...
...pursuit through Belgium, Luxemburg, Alsace-Lorraine penetrated Germany to the left bank of the Rhine and 30 kilometers beyond the bridgeheads at Mainz, Coblentz, Cologne. By the terms of the Armistice, Germany delivered 5,000 locomotives, 150,000 railroad cars, 5,000 trucks to the Allies, and U. S. General Tasker Bliss, astute observer, antimilitarist general, feared the sort of peace that generals and politicians would dictate...