Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Retorted Mr. Smathers: "I'd like to have my name added to the Minton-Schwellenbach list....Who does he mean by 'We'-the Republicans and who else...
...second anniversary of Generalissimo Francisco Franco's dictatorship, Spanish Rightist aviators last week dropped tens of thousands of quarter-pound loaves of bread over the hungry Leftist cities of Madrid and Barcelona. Believing they had pulled off a stunt calculated to persuade Leftists that a Rightist victory would mean a full stomach, Rightist propagandists announced that Madrid's share of the bread, safely floated to the ground in makeshift parachutes, had been 178,000 loaves. Later, ending a week's pause, Rightist batteries west of Madrid resumed their futile shelling of the city, and airmen from Majorca...
...workmen. Meanwhile, Bain has an affair with a schoolteacher, visits Portygee families, gathers a vast anti-Symmes lore. His complete triumph comes when he saves Symmes's life. By this time Bain has so far got the upper hand that he even has a sneaking affection for the mean old devil...
...hard they try to look the other way. This is the explosive doctrine of self-determination for racial minorities. It is the doctrine which Hitler has been applying to such advantage for the territorial expansion of Germany, but also the principle which, if strictly applied throughout Europe, would mean the uprising of some thirty million persons who would break up the boundaries of Europe and give back chaos in return. That there should be so many people living on the wrong side of the frontiers is unfortunate, but at least there are seventy million fewer people today in such plight...
...this may not mean much to the outside world, but to HARVARD UNDERGRADUATES it just goes to show the truth of the old proverb, PENNY WISE, POUND FOOLISH...