Word: lied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...geography of the Pacific (see map} is enough to tell anyone why that 210-square-mile, mountainous wart on the Pacific may one day be a spot as important as Gibraltar. After the war Japan was given a mandate over the once German Caroline Islands. The Caroline Islands lie across the U. S. route to the Philippines, and Guam lies across the Japanese route to the Carolines. In 1922 the Washington Naval Treaty bound both countries to construct no new fortifications in the Pacific (with few minor exceptions), but four years ago Japan renounced that treaty...
...western force were to take the mountains that lie immediately above and behind Barcelona, and if the southern column were to take the fortress of Montjuich. which lies on a promontory that commands Barcelona from the sea side, the city had small chance of holding out. Madrid has held out for two and a half years. But Madrid stands like a fort on a plain. Barcelona lies defenseless...
...Washington, Secretary Woodring retorted that on Governor Aiken's head would lie full blame for blocking the Federal flood control program in Vermont. Franklin Roosevelt sniffed that Governor Aiken would not have to spend his $67,500 fighting fund: if he would rather have States' rights than Federal flood control, all right, the War Department would scratch Vermont off its list, pour its dollars and its dams into other States...
Aside from war, the most obvious threat to continued industrial recovery seemed to lie in the possibility of overproduction such as brought on Depression II. Rising commodity prices would probably herald such an event and last week they were only slightly above the four-year low set last month...
...their ancestors as wealth and position slipped away; members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life. So his books are full of melodrama: the last descendants of old families lie awake in crumbling houses; pompous parents like Mr. Compson deliver half-drunken lectures to their children; elderly spinsters of gentle birth talk hysterical nonsense to impressionable youngsters; young girls creep through the wisteria vines to meet lovers their parents will not accept; young men split their minds trying to make sense...