Word: made
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Moscow poured in after the advancing Red Army, brought 100,000 portraits of Stalin, Lenin and Marx, tons of "educational leaflets." In each town and village, soviet municipal rule was set up under councils of men and women of the proletariat. Thus at Barszczewo the new town soviet is made up of peasants owning no land, factory workers and an impecunious carpenter. Most of the new Soviets in what is now Russian Poland promptly dispatched "greetings to Our Liberator, Joseph Stalin...
...battleship, one battle cruiser, four light cruisers, five destroyers, a total of eleven. British-three battle cruisers, three armored cruisers, eight destroyers, total of 14. The British decorated a lot of their Admirals.* The Germans, though their fleet never emerged again until it was time to surrender, later made May 31 a national holiday...
...tons. > Great Britain's Ministry of Information last week claimed that their seizures of war materials destined for Germany totaled 186.000 tons. Particularly pleased were they to have intercepted 400 tons of molybdenum concentrates and 30,000 tons of manganese, two essentials of cannon steel. Most seizures were made at control ports in the British Isles. Less than a dozen ships had been searched at Gibraltar and Haifa, with only minor seizures (3,000 tons of petroleum, 6,000 of manganese ore, 7,650 of bauxite, 9,000 of iron ore, 500 of frozen beef, etc., etc.). Upon ships...
...would be a poet. I would always feel beautiful inside and be large and kind and beneficial and be honored and do good." At Columbia University, where he went to teach English after graduation from University of Iowa, Dr. Bowman charmed Andrew Carnegie and Nicholas Murray Butler, who made him secretary of the Carnegie Foundation. In 1911, at 34, he went back to University of Iowa as its president, resolved to make it the "Athens of the West." But he failed to get along with the trustees, quit after two years, be came director of the American College of Surgeons...
...things have made Chancellor Bow man one of the most talked-about U. S. educators: his football team and his (still unfinished) 42-story Cathedral of Learning, which he has been building these 18 years. To picture this cathedral to the architect, he played the Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre on a phonograph. "There you have it," he said. "Climax rising above climax." As Dr. Bowman's Cathedral rose, so did his highhandedness. He fired liberal teachers right and left; during the purge 25 walked the plank, 59 quit. When the American Association of University Professors...