Word: regaining
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...could not sleep. Dr. Rathbone found that the patient was 30, unmarried, that her fiance had lost his job, that she had been financially ruined by the Depression, that she had recently broken a leg. Dr. Rathbone's (and her patient's) conclusion: "Must overcome tenseness to regain health...
...Michael Murray and Dr. Alfred Kranes, who attended the wedding, brought the couple back to Stillman immediately after the ceremony, with the promise that after 24 hours of good behavior on the part of the frustrated bridegroom, he might at last regain his liberty. So the newly-weds celebrated the ceremony in a most conservative manner in the rather disheartening atmosphere of the Infirmary...
...Russia, her brutal action will tend to clarify the general nature of her policy, problematical though it remains, and clarify at the same time the attitude of America toward her. She is now in the process of regaining the second piece of territory taken from her in the Versailles treaty, and with the more gradual domination of the little Baltic sea-coast states, it is clear she intends to regain as much of her lost territory as possible. As she becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union...
...rule and before the British ran them off the sea (1654), they conquered an Empire in America and Asia in the same military manner as did the British and French. As late as 100 years ago Wilhelmina's grandfather, William II, fought a brief war to try to regain Belgium. The unification of the 29 German States into one big neighboring empire headed by Prussia made the practical Dutch finally realize that a nation of only a few million could no longer play big-time grabby politics in a world of giant neighbors. It was under Wilhelmina that...
...Kremlin may abandon the policy of world revolution for an attempt to regain Russia's prerevolutionary boundaries, or it may try to set up a series of puppet communistic dictatorships in Eastern Europe, Professor Karpovich believes...