Word: goale
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...biggest game behind Europe's political scenes today is being played by bull-necked French Premier Edouard Daladier and hawk-beaked British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain. Their goal is to win over to the side of Democracy, by means of financial favors, those countries which, impressed by Adolf Hitler's adroit bluffing show of power, last year decided, or almost decided, to line up with Nazi Germany...
...make Italy independent of foreign wheat imports. Due to years of intensified cultivation and reclamation of some 6,600,000 acres of swampland, Italian farms last year produced about 300,000,000 bushels, 20,000,000 more than the nor mal national need which was Mussolini's goal. The coldest, wettest winter since the turn of the Century, followed by a prolonged spring drought led to anticipation that this year's crop would fall to 220,000,000 bushels. Recent rains came in the nick of time and it is now predicted that the harvest will produce slightly...
...still-undeclared war in China, which Japan once confidently predicted would be a matter of a few months, this week entered its second year, still far from her loudly-announced goal of overthrowing Chinese Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek's Government...
...Tell a College Graduate from the Birds and Fishes." Mr. Embree recalled that when he was a boy the South had its own formula for the ideal man: a scholar, a gentleman and a judge of good whiskey. This triple ideal, said he, is still an admirable goal for education. Solomon, he reminded Georgia's graduates, so pleased the Lord when he chose the gift of wisdom that he received riches also, 700 wives, 300 concubines, and "a prolonged visit from the most famous house guest of ancient history, the luscious and magnificent Queen of Sheba...
...problems of who should be admitted to our universities and what they should be taught, but little attention has been paid the perplexing situation which faces almost every student upon graduation. If educators are interested in the implanting of aim into the student mind and its direction toward some goal, they should also consider how, under present economic conditions, he can best use his training. Although the university's purpose may not be vocational, it is essential that its teaching take interest in the student by including some hint of social obligation. A far-sighted educational policy should have...