Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...himself to crises. Nearly a thousand miles behind him another Socialist, the chunky Mayor of Lyons. Edouard Herriot, was aboard the He de France. When the radioman brought him the news, one of his party exclaimed: "We might as well turn around and go back home." The newly decorated lie de France sailed...
...publishers of college text books have instituted court proceedings against a college tutor who, they claim, has violated the copyrights on their properties by reprinting them in condensed form. This may be one approach to the cramming school problem, and it is easy to see where official sympathies will lie in the issue. But, more than anything else, the necessity for cramming for exams has been obviated by the spread of the tutoring systems and reading periods within colleges themselves. No such great store is now set on tests in single subjects, and a comprehensive knowledge of the student...
Organ music, because of its sustained and smooth character is perhaps one of the most soothing forms of musical art. The authorities of Harvard have here equipment of unusual excellence whereby an institution of both cultural and recreative value should be created. It should not be allowed to lie thus in innocuous desuetude...
...table it was read, "King Frederick cedes the kingdom of Norway with all its dependencies. ..." A smart Dane put in quickly, "excepting Greenland, the Faroes and Iceland." An Irishman named Edmund Bourke added, "These colonies have never belonged to Norway." In 1814 Norwegians, rankling at Sweden, scarcely noticed the lie or the loss of Greenland. They continued to hunt and seal on its gloomy eastern coast. The Danes claimed only the west coast. Greenland was still anybody's dead horse...
...with a dead beetle, it claimed sovereignty over an area 50 times as big as itself. Startled were Norwegians who had always quietly thought and quietly said that eastern Greenland was theirs. They began to remember Eric the Red's drowned vikings, the seals and the lie, began to mutter that Norway had been put upon...