Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This was difficult, since British editors felt they had to print and British news agencies felt they had to distribute such information as that in the House of Commons last week Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin's Cabinet was shouted at by War-time Prime Minister David Lloyd George in words which could scarcely fail to vex Il Duce. "Stand up to Mussolini!", roared the Welshman. "Earn some respect for Britain! ... I'd rather have Italy's anger than Italy's contempt." As they left town for England's long Easter holiday, rusticating members...
...both sides are now so good that daylight bombing of important centres is considered too risky. Madrid has not been daylight-bombed for two months. In Salamanca even veteran Hearst Correspondent Karl von Wiegand had to write, and the Rightist censors felt they had to pass, this glorious Leftist news...
...lakes, ponds, marshes and ocean inlets from Canada to Mexico. Last week the Biological Survey announced their findings. They had counted some 9,500,000 wild ducks and geese, estimated as one-quarter of the North American wildfowl population. For 5,000,000 U. S. wildfowlers that was cheering news. It marked the second consecutive year of duck increase. Duck Recovery to oldtime abundance, however, was still a long...
...would seem sensible to try to get it down correctly. ... In all cases where adequate data are at hand the method of redress is by simple arithmetic, in conjunction with two or three venerable formulas. . . . The labors of Newton and Copernicus have been complete for some time now, but news sometimes seems to travel slowly in precisely those quarters where it is significant...
...possible in the next world. And somehow there crept into Judas-lore a famed, odd detail: that Judas hanged himself upon a flowering tree whose blossoms turned red in shame. The Judas or redbud tree flourishes in the South of the U. S., and last week it made news in Oklahoma...