Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...River a strange procession last week inched its way westward. Strung out for miles along the cliffs, with the river swirling over the rapids hundreds of feet below, 7,000 coolies pulled 7,000 jinrikishas, part of a stream of thousands of refugees who had chosen to flee Hankow rather than live under Japanese rule. Piled inside the tottering rikishas were all the manhole covers, sewer gratings and radiators the Chinese could gather before the Japanese captured the city on October 26. The destination of this scrap-iron convoy is Chungking, China's new capital 500 miles upriver from...
Perhaps it is possible to divide the objectors to any rearmament program into three classes; the first contains those who would rather see themselves, their families, and their countries martyred for their convictions; the second includes those who believe that armament is only necessary at the last moment, as a last resort, and hence is dangerous in times of peace; the third is a class which declares that the next war will be so horrible that there is no use preparing for it--civilization will be destroyed anyway...
Bigwig Texas Democrats who are nursing the Garner embryo would rather have waited awhile. But when Red River County invited them to its party, they could do nothing but accept...
...tall, youthful, handsome Mr. Eden, who resigned as Foreign Secretary rather than try to appease the dictators, it didn't seem cricket to criticize the Chamberlain Government while in this country. But the British Government had bestowed their blessings on Mr. Eden's seven-day visit to the U. S. (which was also his first), and many were the rumors in Britain last week that, if his U. S. mission was a success, Anthony Eden might return to the Cabinet. More accurately, the Cabinet might return to Mr. Eden...
...sound-offs sounded like Republican campaign speeches. Two years ago under the guidance of Chairman Colby Chester of General Foods Corp., N. A. M. developed a new attitude, something which might be termed "reasonable liberalism," approving certain New Deal reforms, asking for modest changes, waving the olive branch rather than the hatchet. Last week the Voice of Industry, despite some raucous cracks from the gallery, maintained this conciliatory tone...