Word: pickings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With the unexpected presence in London last week of a cultured Balkan gentleman, it began to look as though Neville Chamberlain had discarded a winning hand before the showdown and might pick it up again...
Although the Italian colonial demands on France are not likely to precipitate an immediate war crisis i Europe, this sudden irredentist campaign for Tunisia and Corsica gains added significance in its relation to the Rome-Berlin axis. That Mussolini should pick a fight with Paris at the very moment the Reich has signed a Franco-German Agreement indicates that the interests of the two dictators are diverging. As junior partner in the axis, Italy must rely more on German support than Germany on Italian support. Thus, while Mussolini had no choice but to swallow the distasteful Austrian "Anschluss," Hitler...
Each day's hunt lasted five hours. Contestants were scored on hunting (trying to pick up a trail); trailing; speed and driving (racing against one another in the chase); endurance. Misbehaviors which meant disqualification: "babbling" (barking to the extent of interfering with the chase); "loafing"' (showing no inclination to hunt); "running cunning" (failing to work fairly on a trail). Hounds sometimes run over 35 miles in five hours...
...them worthwhile in spite of a possible superficiality. If well taught, one such course can open up an entirely new field of thought to the student, and can help to jolt loose many of the biases that have been based on ignorance. It can give him some ability to pick the right material for future reading, and more important still, awaken a new interest in him which will lead to a desire for more of this type of reading, even if it is only the political news in the daily press. Finally, by starting this train of consequences, it should...
Appointed special master to recommend on the issue to the Supreme Court of the U. S. was Lawyer John S. Flannery of Washington. Last week Master Flannery made his report, and Massachusetts, with a tax claim of $4,947,008, was his pick...