Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Responsibility. All this was no game. It was no mean-spirited attempt to increase Russia's difficulties. It was no matter of "taking sides." There were 41 U. S. sailors on City of Flint. Had the U. S. followed another policy it might have been placed in the position of evading its responsibility to them. Unexpected refusal of the Russians to permit U. S. access to the crew opened a hole as big as the blast of a torpedo in the Russian case. Newspaper dispatches called the case a U. S. diplomatic victory. There could scarcely be a victory...
...From Berlin it was announced that the Soviet Union would deliver to Germany, within the next two months, 1,000,000 tons of badly needed fodder. Skeptics, figuring out that this would mean a daily delivery of 16,666 tons, doubted that the Russian railroads could handle such volume, believed it would take at least a ship a day leaving Black Sea or Baltic ports to transport the fodder. >From Dairen, Manchukuo, came a report, later broadcast from Berlin, that the Russians had agreed to transport 1,000,000 tons of Manchukuoan soybeans over the Trans-Siberian Railroad to Germany...
...this autumn, that he eagerly seized on the war as an issue whereby he might recoup lost prestige. He raised the eternal French-Canadian bugaboo of conscription for a British-Canadian war, and decreed an election. It was an important contest, for if Maurice Duplessis won, it would mean that a huge French island in Canada was in open opposition to the Federal policy, and Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King's Government might fall. But things went badly for pink-cheeked, Hitler-mustached, Bon Vivant M. Duplessis...
...mercy of a muddled playwright and an arty director, a not untalented cast was doomed from the start. Apparently assuming that twisted bodies mean twisted souls, they writhed like the Laocoon group. A revolutionary solemnly announced that only a small part of the human race have their heads cut off. The villain twitched about the stage like Mephistopheles with a tic. The audience half expected Fannie Brice to burst in, roll her eyes, and mutter as she did of yore: "It is always c-o-old in Roosia...
...advantages of such a Book Center are two-fold. First it would establish a balance between graduate students and undergraduates, as far as library facilities were concerned. To get a book in the Center would mean turning around in a chair and picking it off the shelves. And if a student wished to pursue a subject at length, the staff could give him adequate and exact references in Widener...