Word: overlies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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For the first part of the week the white-whiskered old man at Doorn did pretty much as he had done every day for the past 21 years-worked a little on his memoirs, walked a little in his park, chopped a little wood. To Friederick Wilhelm Victor Albert von...
When one day over his radio he heard that his Fatherland had marched into Poland and, two days later, that England & France had gone to war against Germany, the 80-year-old man was awakened out of his life-end siesta. He called his wife Hermine and entourage into his...
Elliott Roosevelt, like his father (see p. 13), had his say over the radio: "We haven't been neutral in spirit, because it is impossible for decent human beings to remain neutral in the face of scientific barbarity, but as a unit, as a nation, we will have to...
The Fzig, the Corridor, a protectorate over Poland. Then he retired to write out his answer. It was handed to Sir Nevile later in the day: "Your Excellency informs me . . . that you will be obliged to render assistance to Poland. . . . I . . . assure you that it can make no change in...
Patients' Progress. All last week, ambulances and lumbering green busses carried convalescents and minor cases out of large London hospitals, drove them home, or off to private houses in the countryside. At least 300,000 hospital beds stand empty, all over Britain, ready to receive victims of the first...