Word: os
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...more than a year to each gnawing stomach of 900,000 Madrileños have been rationed only a few daily scraps of bread, a handful of rice, an occasional potato or orange, rancid olive oil, no sugar, mudlike coffee, little meat. Trees have been cut down, furniture broken up, destroyed houses and buildings whittled away to provide fuel for an undernourished population that feels now more than ever the wintry blasts that sweep down from the Guadarrama Mountains...
...traffic lights it leaves everything else behind because the operator merely steps on the throttle while the other cars are shifting gears. So fast is the pickup that the car will move from a dead stop as fast os the wheels will turn without skidding...
...Communist Party in Madrid, and it was from that original block of 1,000 men that the present efficient People's Army of the Leftists has grown. Its development, described graphically by Leftist Volunteer Ralph Bates in the New Republic four months ago, was gradual. Other Madrileños, in the frantic first days of the capital's defense, saw that the men of the Fifth Regiment were actually being drilled before being sent into the lines, that it seemed to have officers whose commands were obeyed, that its supplies arrived promptly. Volunteers hustled to join the Fifth...
...daily, only production drop noted being just after an air raid when the hens were frightened. Anarchist collectivizers eyed the farm jealously once, but Cannaday remained unintimidated. Believer in the profit system, respecter of the law of supply & demand, he continued to sell his wares to hungry Madrileños, paying little heed to Leftist Spain's campaign to outlaw profiteering, fix prices...
...School the Tjomas Alexander Forayth Scholarship was awarded to Carl T. Leader of Hamcica Plain; in the Graduate School of Education, the Austin Scholarship and Faculty Scholarship of Ginasa A. Randall of Arlington; the University of Scholarship to Grace McGlinehey of Cambridge; the Faculty Scholarships to Mary L. Watern os Newton Center and Mac Fanny, Bastall of Washington...