Word: oversaw
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...surrendered after Munich, boasted: "The results of the artillery bombardment have been almost nil and only one out of 60 shelters bombed by the airplanes has been destroyed." The French Maginot Line, according to France's War Ministry month ago, is constantly being reinforced. And while French experts oversaw the construction of the Czech fortifications, it is not likely that they shot the complete works on the defenses of a foreign country. Nevertheless, it must have given the French General Staff an uncomfortable feeling to learn what German ordnance people were up to in Sudetenland last week. A somewhat...
...conditions which have radically changed today. It grew up at a time when there was no such thing as college dining, as Harvard knows it today; at a time which may be characterized as the Memorial-Hall-long-table-biscuit-throwing era. What is more, the generations which it oversaw had not, for the most part, discovered that intemperance is next to godliness, and that grain alcohol is much cheaper, yea, and more effective than wines. Perhaps today's undergraduate would carry his dypsomania with him into the dining halls. A great many sensible people feel that he would...