Word: horizons
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Only with the election on April 10th, when the German electorate will make its final choice between the stability for which President von. Hindenburg stands and the aggressive opportunism of Adolf Hitler, will the rest of the world take its eyes from the German political horizon. Although the other nations whose fortunes are so closely bound up with the rise or fall of the German Republic will assure themselves that Hitler "has shot his bolt," conviction will only come with an unassailable Hindenburg victory...
...until within 100 miles of the earth when there is sufficient atmosphere to afford combustion and the curvature of the earth is approximately seven inches for every mile, the meteor could not have been the one that P. M. Millman 2G, graduate student of Astronomy descerned low on the horizon...
...itch for gay trappings threatens to take more starting form. Blazers are just over the horizon: and once these receive the blessing. Joseph's coat of many colors will indeed become fruitful and infinitely multiply. Heraldie rabbita will cavort on Levereff pajamas; tennis shoes will be tricked out in tri-color; and at length an Eliot man will wear from tip to too the azure and red that proclaim him every inch an elephant...
...Over the horizon from California in the long swell of the Pacific rocked the clock-faced fighting tops of nine battleships of the Battle Force (Pennsylvania, California, New York, Oklahoma, Nevada, Tennessee, Colorado, Maryland, West Vir-ginia). Their radios were ominously silent and they did not come alone. Trailing in their wake was the naval sinew which complements the nation's mightiest sea arm. Jauntily steamed four light cruisers (Omaha, Cincinnati, Concord, Detroit). Rolling porpoise-wise came 24 destroyers. Like sluggish metal fish, six submarines crawled along with decks awash. Plowing forward in the procession were the Lexington...
More anxiously than for months past, financiers and statesmen scanned the state of Europe last week. On the U. S. horizon optimists had discovered pale streaks of hope (see p. 11). Would Europe stand? There was plenty for them to think about. On the credit side, the week passed without any major political disaster. Stock markets in Paris, London and Berlin all continued to rise. With millions in gold coming from India, the pound sterling rose 11? during the week to close at $3.51, highest since November...