Word: recentes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...small countries which lie in the path of the Nazi-Fascist eastbound steam roller, the very countries which Britain has tried to persuade to join up with her. To belatedly aroused Britain and France, Italy's action was possibly more serious than Herr Hitler's recent challenges. In pushing boldly into the Balkan Peninsula, traditional spawning ground of wars, the Fascist military machine had come perilously close to clashing with the "vital interests" of the British and French Empires. Greek naval bases used by the British Navy are next door to Albania; beyond the Balkans are the rich...
Early inquirers of the Stafford camouflaging method were executives of Imperial Chemical Industries, Ltd. Biggest recent job is the great Short Bros. aircraft works, 30 miles east of London, where Imperial Airways flying boats are built. London's $25,000,000 drainage plant will soon look like a village of criss-crossed highways, farm buildings, fields and forests. Easiest to camouflage, says Mr. Stafford, is a flat-roofed building in wooded countryside, over which a continuation of the woods may be painted; hardest is a tall building by a river, especially one with a big smokestack. Impossible to make...
...though Dennison Manufacturing Co. has had no labor trouble for 40 years, its stockholders in recent years have been less contented. With an average annual net since 1929 of only $200,710, compared with $1,072,844 for the previous ten years, the company has run up arrears of $1,275,291.50 ($49.75 a share) on its preferred stock...
...prejudices: He hates musical comedies, trilogies, "female legs in the daily news," simplified spelling, contact as a verb, big books ("as depressing as soggy porridge"). His own big book runs to 986 pages, weighs 2⅝ Ib. Now 74, white-haired, deeply tanned, still vigorous, though saddened by the recent death of his wife, William Lyon Phelps is retired from Yale and Scribner's, contributes a column to the Rotarian, picks an annual list of "best books," writes few book reviews. But his influence is by no means extinct. Still one of the most popular of lecturers, he estimates...
...recent voting of the House Associates plan on the part of the House-masters may be taken as another reason to prove the worth of an expansion in the House athletic program. One consideration, however, is worthy of more than passing note; that is, that every single upperclassman in College must be eligible for House competition as attached to some regular group. With this premise in mind, the Committee views with alarm the recent promulgation of the separate athletic scheme for out-of-House...