Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marrow in their bones since Munich. French and British defense-and hence morale-have distinctly improved. Mr. Roosevelt's tough talk against the dictatorships has helped. It was even possible to construe in Herr Hitler's statement that Germany must "export or die" an invitation to commerce rather than war. Typical French move was a conference of high French Generals in Tunisia at which General Auguste Nogues, Resident General and Commander-in-Chief of all French Armed Forces in Morocco, presided...
...reviewer has ever heard. The turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus of Art Shaw's "Rose Room." The rest is not so good. Casa Loma turns loose a rather weird sense of humor, recording "The Old Oaken Bucket" under the title of "Hoboken Bucket" ... Funny thing that Benny Goodman's best records in the last year have been note for note copies of someone else. First, "One O'Clock Jump" (Basie), then "Wrappin' It Up (Fletcher Henderson), "Topsie" (Basie...
...rather than rebel against the old guard, are trying to show them where they are wrong, and to protest against the 'reactionary' and intolerant feeling in the D.A.R." The only retaliation of the patriotic stand patters hard up to this time, was to call the insurgents 'Reds...
Possibility that the University will be forced to make concessions to the A.F. of L. cooks and waitresses rather than risk the embarrassment of a strike in all the dining halls appeared strong last night after a conferences between College officers and union executives...
...these rallies, called recently in New York, Dean Gauss of Princeton admitted that the Society had, it was true, taken rather poor care of civilization, but announced that he, personally, was fully ready to start work in earnest, and hoped others would follow. "Science, humanity have already suffered too much through suppression of freedom of inquiry to make any policy of appeasement possible. . . . On that issue we hereby declare war," he said. But although Phi Beta Kappa men thrilled to the campaign title, "To the Defense," they found it hard to know just where to start in on the business...