Word: regains
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...indignation meeting at the radicalism of Conservative Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and his Cabinet was what the annual Conservative Party Conference paradoxically amounted to last week at Margate. By enduring British standards, it is radical for His Majesty's Government, when challenged by a Germany hungry to regain colonies now under the British flag, to shilly-shally evasively as the Prime Minister has done, bleating that his Cabinet "has not considered this matter." It was Conservative last week, and rousingly Conservative in a robust Victorian sense, when more than 1,000 of the 1,400 Margate Conference delegates leaped...
...broader scopes for outside reading cannot help but induce a large number of first year men to ignore past prejudice and to judge the course on its merits. If these reforms are religiously preserved and if the general tenor of Government 1 is lightened, it will deserve to regain its former place in the sun and receive the mark of approval of the Freshman class...
...theory that the best defense was to attack, Business fell into the habit of concentrating its fire on Franklin D. Roosevelt. Belatedly it realized that to abuse the man who at last count was the most popular figure in the land was not precisely the smartest way to regain public confidence. So Business became ''constructive." meaning that it tried to divert attention from its sins to its virtues...
...shall respect all social laws and promulgate others that will promote social progress and bring the full benefits of civilization within the reach of every Spaniard. I intend to regain the prestige of Spain as a nation. I think that a military dictatorship will mean the co-operation of all sections of national life. We shall entrust efficient technical men with the administration, not politicians. My reorganization of the State will be based on a corporate system resembling Italy and Germany, preserving, however, traditional Spanish characteristics. My agreement with General Mola and the other leaders of the Revolution provided that...
...maneuvers, while Il Duce dashed about at the wheel of his car. As the games opened the "Red Army" under General Amedeo Guillet drove before it the "Blue Army" of Crown Prince Umberto. This was described as a "strategic retreat" and few doubted that His Royal Highness would regain the offensive with success against General Guillet, an officer insufficiently known to the Italian people to make his army's fate of national interest...