Word: press
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Amerika Esperantistaro (Aro: suffix meaning group of) was your article in the Aug. 15 issue of TIME. Such a sympathetic and accurate account of the origin and progress of Esperanto and its aims is a welcome change from the usually cynical, often hostile, stories and articles in the press...
Europe's outstanding example of mass production in industry, the great Bat'a Shoe Co. of Zlin, braced itself last week against a dire economic threat. Recent German press stories have declared: "The Bat'a family are Czech Jews." If this charge can be made to stick, Bat'a chain shoe stores in Vienna and other parts of Greater Germany face confiscation. Even if not made to stick it may seriously injure their business. Actually, most of the Bat'a family are tall, big-boned, straight-nosed, bristle-haired blonds...
...care about those false statements," wrote Jan Bat'a. "I am only curious to see whether there is still someone in Germany today with the courage to place truth above lying propaganda. I would not be ashamed to be a Jew despite all the attacks of the German press. I would feel equal with all people...
Meanwhile, the German press boiled up with its most furious anti-Czechoslovak campaign thus far; Herr Hitler mobilized 1,000,000 men along the eastern frontiers of Germany; and the Czechoslovak Reserve Officers' Association led Prague patriotic groups last week in demanding that the Government call on Czechoslovaks to fight and if necessary suffer bloody defeat, rather than tamely yield even a fraction of the nation's sovereignty...
...which there are no exceptions. Its huge vocabulary is compounded from roots common to many languages. For instance, from the root pres (to print) are derived presajho (a piece of printed matter), represi (to reprint), presejo (a printing establishment), presigi (to have printed), presisto (a printer), presilo (a printing press), nepresebla (unprintable), presinda (worthy of printing), presacho (an abominable piece of printing...