Word: nesting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Around a nest of bridge tables in University of Michigan's plushy Rackham Building, 20 of the ablest educators of Europe and America gathered last week to sketch a brave new post-war world-a world in which education would play a role denied it at Versailles. Like certain famous beer-hall conferences conducted some 20 years ago, this conference had a leader-a tubby, broad-shouldered ex-German named Reinhold Schairer-and a conspiratorial air, but its ideology was far different. In the minds of the conferees the outlines of a new world order took definite shape...
...antecedents. Manhattan-reared (though allegedly born in Edinburgh, Scotland), he sold newspapers, ran a sporting-goods store, became a go-as-you-please foot racer, a timekeeper at track and field meets, a bottleholder at prize fights, ran a gymnasium in Brooklyn and a saloon called "The Sparrow Nest" on Park Row, was once made "athletic editor of the New York Sun." A Y.M.C.A. athletic director in France during A.E.F. days, he was hired by James Gordon Bennett as sportswriter on the Paris Herald...
...except for such nervous little islands of democracy as Sweden, Finland, Switzerland (which is useful to the Germans as a clearinghouse for foreign exchange). France was practically in the war against Great Britain (see p. 21). Portugal was strengthening the defenses of its Atlantic islands, and Lisbon was a nest of Nazi schemers working to have those defenses used against the Democratic World and not against Totalitaria...
...bespectacled Economics Minister Hubertus J. van Mook. As the weeks went by Minister van Mook knew very well that Japan's Army and Navy were slipping down the Indo-China coast, ever nearer the riches of the Indies. But he also knew that the Indies were becoming a nest of gun emplacements, barbed wire, trenches, that scores of U.S.-made bombers were being unloaded and assembled. And he knew that he had a very favorably disposed, if distant, neighbor named Franklin Delano Roosevelt who commanded a big and not so distant Navy in the Pacific...
...year, and in the mid-'30s turned down a Hearst offer of $700 a week. Publisher Elzey Roberts would not match such salaries, but he gave Taylor Star-Times stock, which he has lately bought back at Taylor's stiff figure. With this nest egg and savings from his $19,500 salary, Editor Taylor can probably take it easy from now on. But he has no intention of retiring for good. "This is a little journey into the woods to see if I can recapture the art of loafing a bit. When the ants begin to get back...