Word: longer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Ababa-Djibouti rail line of which all but the easternmost 50 miles runs through what is now Italian territory, on which practically all the traffic is Italian. The only way the colony can get to the sea without using the line is by way of the new but much longer highway from Addis Ababa to Assawa (not to be confused with the dead-end military road from Assab south to the Somaliland border...
...even impose an economic embargo, to prevent Italian acquisition of Tunis. Still, the poll means that Americans have finally realized that their nation is a part of the world; that Britain, long the strategically dominating factor in Europe and the first line of defense for America's isolationism, no longer holds that position; that Berlin is closer--several days closer, by steamship--to Rio de Janiero than is New York; and that, as the President yesterday said, "democracies of the world which observe the sanctity of treaties . . . cannot safely be indifferent to international lawlessness anywhere. Acts of aggression . . . automatically undermine...
...streets. Now they are being held for "ransom," a gangster trick through the ages. But not only Jews have suffered. Out of Germany has come a steady, ever-swelling stream of refugees, Jews and Gentiles, liberals and conservatives, Catholics as well as Protestants, who could stand Naziism no longer. TIME'S cover, showing Organist Adolf Hitler playing his hymn of hate in a desecrated cathedral while victims dangle on a St. Catherine's wheel and the Nazi hierarchy looks on, was drawn by Baron Rudolph Charles von Ripper (see p. 20), a Catholic who found Germany intolerable. Meanwhile, Germany...
...point is that the Aberdeen-Angus breed has its origin in "time when the memory of man runneth not to the contrary," and is the carrier of dominant characteristics of a kind desirable in a breed of beef cattle, intensified by a longer period of breeding like to like than is the case with other beef breeds...
...press the "banquet incident" loomed bigger than any far-off territorial dispute. But Mr. Chamberlain's own words at the banquet proved that no question of taste would affect the Prime Minister's appease-the-dictators policy. Avoiding the use of the word "appeasement," a term no longer very popular in England, Mr. Chamberlain said he would continue to make a "prolonged and determined effort to eradicate possible causes of war and to try out methods of personal contact and discussion." Dictatorships do not last forever, the Prime Minister hinted, and "attempts at domination are never long successful...