Word: parte
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Germany, which needs gold more than guns, even offered to sell to France some of the vast cache of arms seized when the Nazis marched into Czecho-Slovakia. Heading the list of bargains were 1,600 war planes. Czech Army equipment was originally financed in part by French loans...
...afternoon last week an air-raid alarm jarred Chungking. Return of fine weather had meant return of Japanese bombers, held off by three months of fog & mist. Earlier in the week two raids in which 36 Japanese planes took part had set fires that were still burning, started a flight of refugees that was still going on. At 4:20, 16 Chinese pursuit planes took off, disappeared in the smoky air. The remaining citizenry disappeared in caves and dugouts on Chungking's hillsides, where they sweltered in the hot afternoon...
Experts consider McDonald Observatory's mirror the finest piece of astronomical glass ever made. Because of the observatory's southern location, it will cover more sky than any other in the U. S.-all the sky except that relatively small part which lies within 30° of the south celestial pole. But it will not probe so far into space or catch such faint stars as Mt. Wilson's 100-incher; and Dr. Struve, candidly admitting these limitations last week, said that it would be used for those wide-vision purposes to which it is especially well...
...based are not incompatible. For, contrary to Freshman claims, the latter in theory will never be sacrificed to the former. For under the strictest application of the system, a good scholastic or activities record will always take precedence over such considerations as from what schools or from what part of the country the applicant may come. However, in the actual practice of this policy, the Freshmen have a legitimate complaint...
...schools has, without doubt, the support of the great majority of the alumni who understand the extent to which the schools have grafted themselves onto the educational system of the college. In courage alone this campaign must be almost unique. When has any other newspaper thrown out a large part of the advertising and attacked the ex-advertisers...