Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Berry well," said the Sage," you've Mazur bed, now you can lie in it. As Ferris I can see, it'll be Harvard 13, cadets 7. Anyway, leave the predictions to me and you Gardella...
Jules Romains' estimate of why Leopold and De Man quit the Allies last May could serve also as an estimate of the futility of such machinations as Romains': "The King and he tried to lie to themselves, until the last minute, so as not to see that the war we were fighting . . was their war. When the last minute came, with its crashing eloquence, they found themselves bound to consent to war, but they consented reluctantly and lay ready at the first occasion to betray it. For when they betrayed their Allies they gave themselves the excuse that...
...Ukraine looks flat, it is actually underlaid by layers of rock sloping slightly upward to the east. These layers overlap one another like shingles and the rivers run beside the overlaps, with one low bank subject to flooding and one steep bluff on which most of the big towns lie. But the high bank in each case is on the west so that it presents no obstacle to an invasion from that direction. It offers an actual advantage, for when troops reach the bluff at any point their artillery can command the far bank and protect their crossing...
Since, of the 4500 students one such recruiter interviews he selects less than a hundred, any student must realize that his chances for employment in such large corporations are small, and that his main opportunity will lie among the thousands of smaller business concerns which do most of the Nation's business...
...Foreign Minister Molotov prepared to confer with Germany's Ribbentrop, Berlin let it be known that in the new world Germany hopes to create, Russia would have her sphere of influence. This sphere would lie between German Europe and Japanese East Asia, but its exact boundaries were not marked. Russia does and must always fear German expansion eastward more than anything else, and it was doubtful last week if anything Joachim von Ribbentrop could say or sign would reassure Comrade Stalin on that point. Best bet was that Russia would continue to play ball with the Axis against Great...