Word: lieing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pacifist. Last February, during the Isolationist storm over Franklin Roosevelt's sanction of warplane sales to France, she began to edge out of her corner. "Germany," she wrote, "is geared to produce a thousand planes a month; France to produce one hundred planes a month. . . . Do our sympathies lie with the other democracies, or do they lie with the totalitarian states...
...floodlight and then executed, in situ. The executioners were seven Rumanian soldiers, each of whom drew a pistol and killed one of the seven Iron Guards. The bodies slumped to the pavement, gushing blood and sprawled grotesquely next to those of two Iron Guards who had committed suicide, to lie there in the street for 24 hours. This object lesson was captioned by a huge banner draped by police clear across the street: "Let this be an example to all assassins and traitors in the country...
...undergraduate chooses medicine, hopping on the already overcrowded band-wagon, feeling it may carry him safely through the hectic years that lie ahead. Governments may fall and financial systems disintegrate, but not in his lifetime will human anatomy change, not in his lifetime will human disease cease. Society, no matter what form it may take, will provide livelihood for those who can cure, repair, reconstruct...
...must not be misguided by this foreign propaganda to the effect that our frontiers lie in Europe.* What more could we ask than the Atlantic Ocean on the East, the Pacific on the West? ... An ocean is a formidable barrier, even for modern aircraft...
...Ministry, a key figure in Germany's miniature Army. He became a lieutenant colonel in 1925 and served a turn in a Prussian artillery regiment. In 1930 he was back in the Defense Ministry as director of military training, with the rank of colonel. His career seemed to lie in office work, and after serving briefly as chief of staff of the 6th Artillery Regiment he was given the routine assignment of inspecting the artillery. He became a major general in 1931, chief of artillery in March...