Word: regretful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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WASHINGTON--The State Department tonight "expressed regret" to the German Embassy over yesterday's incident in which two American sailors and three civilians tore a Nazi swastika flag from a ninth-floor pole of the German Consulate in San Francisco. It also advised the German Embassy that an investigation would be made...
...Field lost the quiet, -steely-eyed officer who has been its commandant for three years. Colonel John B. Brooks was promoted to Brigadier General, transferred to the new Westover Field (at Chicopee, Mass.) to command a bombing wing. His new stars pleased General Brooks, but he was bound to regret leaving Randolph. For the Air Corps's biggest job just now is training pilots, and Randolph is the centre of the job. Under John Brooks, the course had been drastically changed and speeded up. Under his successor, Colonel Idwal H. Edwards, it is soon to be changed again...
...DEEPLY REGRET THE NECESSITY OF ANNOUNCING A DEATH IN THE FAMILY. The deceased: "Academic Freedom...
...However much any group of undergraduates may disagree with the opinion of the President of this University, there should prevail an ordinary regard for the institutions and their representatives, and I deeply regret that such an unpleasant incident occurred when we were your guests last Saturday...
...asked the public to help a gilt-edged jury pick the winners. On their choice for first prize both public and jury agreed. It was a picture of a bleak, bare no man's land on which a solitary, leafless tree stood silhouetted. Its simple motto: "Lest we regret. . . ." Its painter: Manhattan freelance Commercial Artist Arthur Hawkins...