Word: lest
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Governor John William Bricker further disclaimed responsibility for Cleveland's relief crisis (TIME, Dec. 4, et seq.). It was not a yen to finish his year with a balanced budget, but Democratic manipulations in WPA and lackadaisical local administrators that were chiefly to blame, said Republican Bricker. Lest anybody think he was still dark-horsing around for the G.O.P. Presidential nomination, he added: "In 1940, I'll be a candidate for Governor of Ohio-absolutely...
Game Spoiled. According to the Ciano version, what really spoiled this Axis game was the overture of Neville Chamberlain to Joseph Stalin and the consequent alarm of Adolf Hitler lest he have to face an Anglo-Franco-Russian lineup. The action of the democracies, said Count Ciano, so bolstered the prestige of the Soviet Government that the Nazis had to do something about it. "If the great democracies had ignored Russia," feelingly continued Ciano, "Germany would have had well-founded motives for doing the same." Thus Britain and France were officially blamed for starting...
Last week John Lewis' trouble shooter, Philip Murray, assembled the top officers of C. I. O.'s automobile union for a seminar in Pittsburgh. Subject: order in the ranks. Object: to make the sometimes disorderly United Automobile Workers of America behave, lest the union's ill repute further besmirch the whole...
...Apprehensive lest they be made the victims of the fanciest sort of diplomatic feint, in London and Paris Lord Halifax and Premier Daladier sat tight, kept their guns trained on one enemy at a time-the Nazis. There would be plenty of time to see if an amazing double cross was the beginning of an entirely different crusade, a fantastically crooked diplomatic square dance with everybody suddenly changing partners...
Next in rapid succession, came second grade reading, reading for the primer tots, third grade reading, fourth grade arithmetic, sixth grade arithmetic (long division seventh grade arithmetic. Lest classes fall behind schedule, Miss Campbell did most of the talking, prodded her pupils to hurry By day's end, Miss Campbell had taught her classes reading, writing, spelling, grammar, arithmetic, geography, history, science. Total amount of instruction for each grade: 50 minutes...