Word: nationally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...week which was trying to many British businessmen (see col. 3), the nation as a whole was cheered to have its faith in the British Navy renewed by Sir Samuel ("Flying Sam") Hoare, who, as First Lord of the British Admiralty, has been increasingly often mentioned as one of two or three statesmen with a real chance of becoming Prime Minister. Sir Samuel would certainly know, reasons the average Englishman, whether there is any validity in the rumors that Air Power has now outmoded Sea Power. This onetime Air Minister was Foreign Secretary when Benito Mussolini faced down British ships...
...make irrelevant remarks, vehemently justified the burning, thundered with apostolic zeal: "The English Government's behavior in the matter of the bombing school is exactly the behavior of the new Antichrist throughout Europe. . . . The establishment of the bombing field would make imminent the death of our Welsh nation. . . . It is my responsibility for the Kingdom of God in Wales that urged me to strike the blow for Wales. Our allegiance to the laws of Christianity is infinitely higher than our allegiance to the laws of England...
...Slightly indisposed," Emperor Hirohito of Japan suspended the nation's autumn harvest thanksgiving ritual at which he was expected to offer rice to the Gods of the Imperial Sanctuary...
...Smithsonian administers the U. S. National Museum, the National Gallery of Art, the Freer Gallery of Art, the Bureau of American Ethnology, the National Zoological Park, a group of astrophysical observatories, a laboratory for studying the effect of radiation on organisms, a service which officially exchanges governmental and scientific documents with foreign countries. The National Museum comprises two buildings close by the Institution. Here many of Roosevelt I's African hunting trophies are realistically mounted. The Smithsonian building itself is the nation's inexhaustibly interesting attic, whose cherished and heterogeneous knick-knacks include Lindbergh's transatlantic plane...
Last July Surgeon General Parran wrote a lengthy article called "Stamp Out Syphilis" which appeared simultaneously in The Reader's Digest and Survey Graphic. Last week the editors of The Reader's Digest bragged: "Discussion [of this article] in conversation everywhere and in the Press of the nation has brought the whole subject into the open for the first time. To date more than 1,500 organizations and individuals have ordered 276,021 reprints of the article for distribution...