Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...these who had belonged to the Leftist militia the French Government refused admission. However, it was now the fast-growing Soviet Machine against the German-Italian Machine, and Spaniards found themselves facing the possibility of a civil war prolonged indefinitely-unless the swift, victorious Rightist offensive of recent weeks should quickly prove decisive...
...Lieutenant Cohen called the figure of 8,500 Americans killed, wounded and missing in Spain given by Mr. Honeycombe "highly exaggerated." Barcelona Correspondent Herbert L. Matthews again cabled as the total U. S. enrollment in the People's Army the figure of 2,000 he gave in his recent book Two Wars and More to Come (Carrick & Evans, $2.50). In this Timesman Matthews wrote: "The outcome of the Spanish Civil War is not going to be changed by the advent of some 2,000 or more Americans: it is in the United States that they will make their deepest...
...Buckingham Palace family circle, had these new American friends down to Windsor Castle for the week end. Also present were Prime Minister & Mrs. Chamberlain. London has taken to the Kennedy children almost as enthusiastically as though they were the King's own moppets, and the Sunday Observer has recently come out with the results of a competition in which Britons have been writing verses on the U. S. Ambassador's recent hole-in-one at Stoke Poges...
...also from the Java creature's thighbone. On this basis Dr. Weidenreich assumes the Peking man's thighbones to be the more primitive. He concludes that the Java thighbone has no relation to the Java skull-an opinion advanced by other anthropologists before him. Of the more recent finds on Java's Solo River-fos-sils which the Dutch diggers take to be even older than the first Pithecanthropus -Dr. Weidenreich has nothing to say whatever...
...Hicks diatribe, entitled "A Letter to Robert Hillyer," referred specifically to Hillyer's recent book of poetry, addressed in the same manner to Robert Frost. In a full page of caustic verse Hicks belittled the poet on both personal and professional grounds. Some extracts from "A Letter to Robert Hillyer' are below...