Word: neighbors
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Number Five. With the assurance of a seer, the H.S.U. charges that unless we nod our heads to legislation for protection of "civil liberties, labor and social security standards," the War Crisis will be used to undermine American democracy. Again in Number Six, the "democratic extension of the Good Neighbor Policy" is illegitimately linked to the quick settlement of the oil dispute with Mexico--one of the favorite planks in the American Student Union's platform. On almost every point the Student Union has failed to keep the objective fairness that a poll demands. Except for the first two questions...
These questions include queries on legislation curbing war profits, credits, shipping to belligerents, protection to American citizens on belligerent ships, protection of civil liberties, extension of the Good Neighbor Policy through Mexico and Latin America, and aid to China by boycott and embargo...
...which is about 1,000,000 light-years in diameter (one light-year equals approximately six trillion miles). Another discovery, nearer home, concerned the Cepheid variables-a class of stars, mostly yellow supergiants, which fluctuate regularly in brightness. The Harvardmen noticed that in the Small Magellanic Cloud, a neighbor galaxy to the Milky Way, the bigger Cepheids were mostly concentrated toward the centre of the galaxy. This may mean that they were brought there by the operation of galactic gravity over a long time, or that when the stars originally were formed from the parent nebula, conditions favored the formation...
Turkey's alliance with Britain and France also bade fair to ease German pressure on the little Balkan States. Backed by such a powerful neighbor, Rumania, Greece and Yugoslavia may now take a more independent and fearless course than so far they have dared...
...spring of this year Adolf Hitler "invited" all three Scandinavian States to sign bilateral non-aggression pacts with the Reich. Norway and Sweden promptly refused, saying this would infringe their "strictly neutral" status, but Neighbor Denmark felt obliged to sign, and this marked the first minor break in the Neutral Front of the Nordic Bloc. Whether or not the Führer can use it as an opening wedge, Scandinavia was becoming war-jittery, Stockholm citizens were building air-raid shelters, and Norway, Sweden and Denmark were reported on the point of placing orders...