Word: landing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...undergraduate body be surpassed by that of the faculty. You must not fail to understand the implications of the point so superbly stated to you this summer by Dr. Baxter when he said, "Shocking as is the paradox of poverty amid abundance, of millions in want in a land whose productive resources are enormous and capable of enormous expansion, it is no more shocking than the neglect of opportunity for education by thousands of those who are privileged to be enrolled in our institutions of learning, and who have, of their own choice, consigned themselves to intellectual poverty...
Even if the Sudeten areas really provide Hitler's last territorial demand--and it is well to remember that he once promised not to impair Austria's independence--Hitler can promise not to demand more land in central Europe because the territorial basis of the Drang Nach Osten will already have been laid. With Sudeten industry and fortifications in his grasp, and with France's cordon sanitaire virtually dissolved, Hitler can pursue the peaceful phase of his drive to the East--East economic pentration into southeastern Europe. Czechoslavakia, Rumania, and Hungary will become defenseless puppet states, and thus Hilter will...
...most satisfactory auto-racing strip in the world,* the two Englishmen, with no more fanfare than two moppets sliding down a hill to see who could go farther, took turns to see who could come closer to traveling six miles a minute-and incidentally break the world's land-speed record of 311 miles an hour, set last year by Captain Eyston...
...leading producers of tulips and cheese: But Dutch literature, which even at its high point, in the time of Erasmus and Spinoza, was always Holland's lowest point below sea level, remains almost wholly unreclaimed. Last week two Dutch novels stood out as new patches of dry land...
...research seminars will be conducted at the new school during the year by prominent Harvard professors in government, economics, and business. Heinrich Bruening, former Chancellor of the German republic, will have a group on "Government Regulation of Industry." Among the other subjects taken up will be "Agricultural, Forestry, and Land Policy," "Economics of Collective Bargaining;" "Federal Administration;" "The Legislative Process;" and Price Policies...