Word: quos
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...individual in relation to his government. Sample: Franklin Roosevelt. A conservative is a man who is opposed to change in existing institutions, harking back to some previous condition (Free Trade) for his standard in judging the present. Sample: Walter Lippmann. A reactionary contemplates some fundamental change in the status quo in order to recover the supposed advantages of institutions that have disappeared. Samples: French monarchists, Southerners who believe in slavery, Dorothy Thompson. . . . EDWARD MCARDLE Toronto...
...factor which works toward preservation of the status quo, he explained, is the strong French cabinet formed from the right and center. "I do not expect any break at the Czechoslovakian frontier as long as the present cabinet is in power in France," he declared...
...Soviet Russia is the only state with which Germany has no desire to cooperate," declared the Chancellor, "for Soviet Russia is trying to Bolshevize the world. If England was really anxious to defend the status quo, she would energetically oppose the Bolshevization of other countries, for such Bolshevized regions are no longer self-governing states but only sections of the revolutionary Moscow centre. I know Mr. Eden does not share this view! Stalin does and openly admits it." (See p. 17.) The Chancellor, having thus pinched the sorest point he could find, devoted a conciliatory part of his speech...
...that in Jesuit-trained, rock-pious and astute Dr. Schuschnigg they have a Chancellor who could and would stand up persuasively to potent, mystic, unstable Dictator Hitler. News from London seemed to indicate chances brightening for a British-German-French-Italian understanding to uphold territorial Europe's status quo. Finally the Austrian people this week found Austrian Nazis wild with rage "at secret reports to them from Germany which those Nazis said mean that "Hitler has betrayed...
...several hundred years; 2) that the U. S. could not morally prevent the distribution of a gas with important laboratory and medical uses (notably in oxygen tents); 3) that for the 17,900,000 cu. ft. Germany will receive in 1938 there will be a formal quid pro quo-two naval observers will ride on each German Zeppelin using the gas, thus get valuable training in lighter-than-air navigation which the U. S., with all its big dirigibles wrecked or grounded, no longer provides...