Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which threatened to envelop the world in flames has been averted; but it has become increasingly clear that peace is not assured. All about us rage undeclared wars -military and economic. All about us grow more deadly armaments-military and economic. All about us are threats of new aggression-military and economic...
With reference to the outcome of the friction in North Africa, Salvemini declared. "For the time being I don't think the situation will grow dangerous. I suspect that all these outcries which are being made about Tunis, the Suez Canal, and Djibouti is meant not as much to disturb the French as to please Mr. Chamberlain...
...four battleships, seven light cruisers, seven destroyers of the newly formed Atlantic Squadron. A cardinal principle in Navy strategy has long been that "the Fleet" should largely remain together, ready to move as a unit and at maximum strength to any threatened point. Whether the Atlantic Squadron is to grow into a separate Fleet is a matter of dispute...
...great imperialist, Takashi Masuda saw the imperialism he had fostered grow to ungovernable dimensions. After a lifetime in international trade he began to fear Japanese isolation. He experimented endlessly with cheap native foods in an effort to make his country agriculturally self-sufficient, wrote pamphlets to show farmers how to reduce their costs, enthused over a charcoal-burning automobile which he thought would make Japan independent of foreign fuel...
Each day his wife and two children saw Melvin Attig grow more worried. One day last fortnight Principal Attig heard a disturbance in the basement of his school, went to investigate. As he entered the room, boys hooted, drenched him with water...