Word: reasonably
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Thingumabob . . . gallantly lifted himself to his feet again as the track veterinarian shot him dead" (TIME, Aug. 22). Let TIME or veterinary scientists explain why broken ankles and legs cannot be set, why valuable horseflesh is sacrificed. There must be a reason, other than such horses' usefulness as moneymakers (or losers) is ended...
...Paris, resolute Premier Edouard Daladier, at last able to convince Britain that she had reason to feel the gravest alarm (see col. 3), rushed French preparations to fight effectively at once, if obliged...
...characteristic Hitler digression of great length Der Führer passionately insisted that last May the President of Czechoslovakia "lied" in saying Germany had mobilized, making this his reason for a Czech mobilization. The fact that last week Germany was fully mobilized and Czechoslovakia had not mobilized, Orator Hitler ignored, shouting: "Not a single German soldier was mobilized in May! . . . That lie was invented to serve the criminal purposes of one State-Czechoslovakia, which was then ready to plunge the world into war. . . . I declare that the German Government will not tolerate such action for a second time...
...Reason for this optimism was that, after weeks of excruciatingly slow progress by naval and land forces up the valley of the broad, brown Yangtze, Japanese troops suddenly knifed through stubborn Chinese defense lines and penetrated to Wusueh, on the north bank of the Yangtze, only 80 crow miles from their goal. In Hankow, Chinese military heads, preparing for a last-ditch stand, ordered evacuation of 20,000 women to facilitate defense of the area, and by week's end 1,000 of them were on their way to Chungking, China's inland capital, 500 miles inland from...
Last week it became public knowledge everywhere but in Mexico that the Mexican Government Petroleum Administration was swapping oil for newsprint with Nazi Germany. A very good reason for loudly proletarian President General Lázaro Cárdenas' Government failing to broadcast this news for home consumption was that simultaneously in Mexico City was convening the first Latin-American Labor Conference, which opened with many a sharp cry against "Nazi and Fascist penetration of Latin America." Host to the conference was ascetic, sloe-eyed Vicente Lombardo Toledano, president of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers). Only...