Word: muchly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Will you please settle a bet for an old subscriber? What was the 1914 area of Belgium, and how much of that area was ever occupied by the Germans during World...
...Woodring came out of Kansas to be Assistant Secretary in 1933. When Secretary of War George H. Dern died in 1936, President Roosevelt was in the midst of a re-election campaign and the easy thing to do was up Harry Woodring. In 1937, having failed to work up much enthusiasm for mild Mr. Woodring, the President chose for Assistant Secretary a go-getting West Virginia lawyer and Legionnaire, Louis Johnson. Reports that Mr. Johnson had been promised his boss's job soon reached the newspapers and the boss. Secretary Woodring thereupon set himself to keeping...
...know what I would say," she quietly replied, "I only hope it would be something which would prove to the English people how much I love them...
...Russian Army into conquered Poland, in which correspondents, ostensibly praising the Army, declared it had reached that high degree of technical proficiency achieved by the armies in the U. S. Civil War. Of its mechanized might, they said trucks were numerous-so numerous that seldom had so much broken-down machinery been blamed on bad roads. Scorn snowed through stories of impossible Chinese peace proposals from Chungking, in stories of the suppression of the French Communist Party, no less than in the mysterious report that Adolf Hitler might put an abrupt and disconcerting end to the Stop Hitler movement...
...student, then, is in a much more favorable position in regard to his purchases than were his predecessors not so many years ago. True, transportation facilities have been greatly improved but, alas, too late. Today there is the taxi, the subway, the automobile. They are in vain. Happily, there is also the new and square Harvard Square. And for this pleasant situation, the Coop is largely responsible...