Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...promptly shipped by the French back by rail to Loyalist territory. From Barcelona the U. S. diplomatic mission moved 20 miles nearer France on the coast. Leftist Premier Dr. Juan Negrin called for 100,000 fresh volunteers for the People's Army, and Defense Minister Indalecio Prieto no longer spoke of victory but tried to persuade the French that unless they sent help the methodical advance of Generalissimo Francisco Franco might not stop in Spain but smash right on into the French Republic...
...reoccupation of the Rhineland and the other on the occasion of the official proclamation announcing Germany's rearmament. I can admit quite frankly today that . . . The Führer and we all were in fear and anxiety then. Today those fears have passed! There can no longer be any question of a 'promenade' from Paris to Berlin. That was once- but will never be again...
...last fall Arnaud Marts told the college he could no longer spare the time to be its president because he had to attend to his business as president of Marts & Lundy, Inc. of Manhattan, financial counselors for philanthropic organizations. Bucknell was appalled. Its students and faculty quickly signed a petition and the trustees unanimously begged him to stay. "We would rather have you as our leader at Bucknell only one day a week," wrote the trustees, "than anyone else we know for seven days a week...
...Tussle and nobody in Bug Tussle has a telephone. Almost everybody is almost everybody else's cousin. The citizens of Bug Tussle present a united front to the world. Two months ago two postal inspectors from Birmingham arrived to ask a few questions. It took rather longer than they thought, for nobody was at all cooperative. But last week they finally arrested seven people for using the mails to defraud...
...Court bench, Washington gossip reported Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes at a high pitch of exasperation because nervous Justice Black's rocking chair punctuated hearings with a high-pitched squeak, squeak. This week, when the Court convened after a two-week recess, Hugo Black's chair no longer squeaked and it speedily became apparent that harmony had been restored. For Chief Justice Hughes and a majority of his fellows, including Hugo Black, saw eye-to-eye on the year's most important case-the test of the constitutionality of the registration requirement of the Public Utility...