Word: needing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...increases. The shadow of 1940 lay heavy on the grey Capitol, the gleaming White House. Ancient, ham-handed "Old Muley" Bob Doughton of North Carolina, chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee, celebrated his 76th birthday, optimistically remarked that the war boom in business might obviate the need of new taxes...
...Adolf Hitler know that they would defend their neutrality, and their frontiers, together. The concentration of Nazi troops on the Belgian and The Netherlands border and the recent tone of the German press and Foreign Office toward the Low Countries made Belgians and Netherlanders fear that both might well need defending...
...they must invite all those whom they feel opposed to that interest to join with them and defeat their ends. Last night's meeting was called specifically for those who wished to protest against the University's discriminatory action. Those who did not feel like participating in this protest need not have come; surely, having come, they should not have attempted to destroy the common purpose for which those present, with but few exceptions, had gathered...
...strong navy is essential to American safety in the present crisis, the senator said. Building up our maritime strength to the allowance of the 5-6-8 ratio need not be interpreted as violating our position as a strictly neutral nation, he remarked...
This adjustment will not come this year or next. It may never come. What is important about the Grant Study is that for the first time Harvard has taken cognizance of the need for more fully "educating" its students. Increasingly it becomes important that the student himself is the subject of education--from his curricular activities to his daily hygiene...