Word: nigh
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Polish Communists seemed more passionate, more vengeful, less efficient than German Communists. They specialized in foreign affairs. Said one: "Poland and Germany are at present trying to draw France away from its pact with the Soviet Union because France and the Soviet Union are well-nigh invincible. Polish enmity against Czechoslovakia and Rumania is based upon its efforts to keep them away from a Russian bloc. The next war is being planned against the Soviet Union...
...Rostock suggested that Ahern draw a feature laid in a boarding house. Ahern went to work, produced Mrs. Martha Hoople and her needle-nosed, cynical Boarders Clyde and Mac. After a few months a new character was needed and Mrs. Hoople's husband, who "had been gone for nigh on ten years," suddenly appeared. At first Hoople was a grotesque, sawed-off figure not much taller than his little Nephew Alvin. Gradually Hoople grew into a genial, full-sized, bulbous braggart, dominated "Our Boarding House." N. E. A. boosted the cartoon's distribution until it now ranks among...
Such questions, so easy to raise, are well-nigh impossible to answer. Only the historian will be able to pass final judgment on the events now transpiring in Europe. But is all too clear that however fine the fact that the League is at last acting according to its Covenant, the Italian people are going to lose far more than they can possibly gain from their leader's private war. To just what extent a people may be held responsible for the acts of their statesmen is a nice philosophical point. All we in America can do is to avoid...
Piece of Pork. This Japanese Army pronouncement had the authentic ring of those which preceded Japan's invasion of Manchuria and setting up of the puppet Empire of Manchukuo. Today the Nanking Government is already so pliant toward Japan that further acquiescence is well nigh impossible if the Government is to remain in any sense Chinese. Immediately ahead and prior to a Japanese armed advance seemed to lie a period of setting more and more venal Chinese upon North China's seats of local power. Of these wretched creatures Japan's favorite last week was the former...
Needless to say, the magnitude of the new project on which the College is embarking makes any analysis of Mr. Plimpton's precise duties well-nigh impossible. Those who have conceived the new position expect him to spend the rest of this year investigating; the entire employment situation before embarking on definite policies...