Word: got
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although feigning indifference, Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy showed last week their pleasure at the temporary rebuff France and Britain got in Moscow. In London and Paris, it was said, Foreign Commissar Molotov's speech (and his note rejecting the British proposals which followed it) was a "disappointment," but they would try, try again. Apparently they were still trying as the Foreign Affairs Committee of the British Cabinet with the approval of the French Cabinet, batted the ball back to the Russians, decided that offers of guarantees to Latvia, Estonia & Finland would be made only if those States asked...
...Brazen lowered boats. When her wireless operators tapped out messages on the protruding stern they thought they got back reassuring messages from within. The Admiralty released its first statement: "There is nothing to indicate that the men are other than safe...
...clock one evening this week the Duchess of Kent, chatting merrily with Lord and Lady Portarlington, got in her car outside her house in London's Belgrave Square and drove off with her guests to the cinema to see Wuthering Heights. Not until she returned hours later did the Duchess learn that she had narrowly missed being shot by an assassin...
...absolutely necessary to the successful military "scientist." The Allies almost lost the World War because Britain's Lord Kitchener had grown stodgy, because France's Foch kept mistaking a trench "war of position" fof an open "war of maneuver," because the campaign to take the Dardanelles got under way too slowly. Britain's Sir Douglas Haig threw away a chance for a decisive breakthrough when he allowed the new invention of the tank to appear on the western front prematurely, without adequate support, in numbers far too small to be effective. If Brilliant Mind Winston Churchill...
...Empress of Australia, which carried the King and Queen of England to Canada last month, got them to Quebec two days late because of icebergs and fog. If Their Majesties had crossed last week, they would have been held up longer, for the bergs were crowding thicker into the North Atlantic shipping lanes. The International Ice Patrol reported no fewer than 800-more than in any year since 1912, when one of the 1,019 icebergs sighted that year sank the Titanic...