Word: going
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...space (36.88 acres), 414 miles of steel shelving. It catalogues the important holdings of more than 700 other U. S. libraries, has published about 400 titles of its own, employs 1,055 People, has a $3,000,000 budget. Into it, before he takes office next autumn, will presumably go one more MacLeish opus, a poem on which he was working last week in the Massachusetts hills...
...England, after two weeks of pursuit by British newspapermen, the Lindberghs found peace. They went freely to the homes of friends, found they could go to London for dinner and the theatre without being mobbed. In Paris, where they moved after living for a time at Illiec, a secluded Breton isle, life was just as calm. At dinner in the Crillon, at the theatre, no one except an occasional American tourist gawked at them. There were no autograph hunters...
Justice. While France made every effort to persuade the former Loyalists to go back home, much of the news that filtered through the tightly censored French-Spanish frontier was not calculated to encourage mass reentry. Eighteen permanent tribunals were said to be working in Madrid trying Loyalists; there were said to be 500 arrests in Barcelona and Madrid daily; 2,000 awaited trials in Madrid alone; 688 have been executed; 20,-ooo were in a concentration camp near Alicante. Although there were accusations still outstanding against 1,000,000 persons in former Loyalist territory, the police appealed to the public...
...children's relief," he said. "Franco has assured us he would like to have us continue the work until we are ready to retire, but it is evident that he wants the food, not us. There is no way of being sure where the food is likely to go...
Hero of this year's series was the same towheaded titan who was the hero of the first post-War series in 1921 and every series since (except 1936 when he was too busy to go abroad to play): Thomas Hitchcock Jr. Son of the captain of the first U. S. polo team (that lost to England in 1886), Tommy Jr., at 39-and after a quarter-century of competitive polo-proved last week that he is still the best polo player in the world. Spectators, gasping at his fearless riding, peerless tactics, magnificent driving and accurate shotmaking, realized...