Word: maining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...TIME, Sept. 7 et ante). Since it is through Portugal that the principal munitions supplies of the Spanish Whites arrive, and since the Portuguese Government under no conceivable circumstances would have failed to send a representative to the conference if pressed to do so by the British Government, the main point of the London gathering last week was that no Portuguese appeared. Soon the 26 nations agreed with Mr. William Shepherd Morrison that the best thing to do was to adjourn until he decides that "sufficient data" has been gathered for another meeting to take place...
...rival that of William Randolph Hearst. To newsmen's surprise, the Graphic never caught on, though it did set alltime journalistic marks for sensational incoherence. In 1932, after a scheme to unload the failing sheet on its employes had been abandoned, Publisher Macfadden regretfully jettisoned the Graphic. Main money-makers for Mr. Macfadden have been the pioneer sex-confession magazine True Story, for which he claims the largest monthly newsstand circulation of any magazine on earth (total: 2,135,006), his detective magazines which feature pictures of real crooks and his "Women's Group" (True Romances, Love...
...During the Middle Ages the air they breathed was permeated with the doctrines of a universal church; since the Reformation in Protestant countries these have undergone a slow and varied metamorphosis. But the essence of the university tradition has remained constant. From the first foundations to the present, four main streams have watered the soil on which the universities have flourished. These ultimate sources of strength are: first, the cultivation of learning for its own sake; secondly, the general educational stream of the liberal arts: thirdly, the educational stream that makes possible the professions; and, lastly, the never-failing river...
...practice was run on a strict time schedule, starting promptly at 9.30 o'clock with a short grass drill. The squad was then divided into four main groups; blocking backs working under Neil Stahley, running backs reporting to Howie Odell, Rae Crowther attending to the linemen, and Wes Fesler taking the ends. At 11 o'clock when practice ended, eight teams were running through signal drill...
...assumed the Government of Spain-the sole regime in Western Europe now to contain even a single Communist member of the Cabinet. This did not change but did regularize existing authority in Madrid. At latest dispatches the Capital had by no means fallen, although Generalissimo Franco was leading his main army in person against it from the south and was advancing toward Toledo...