Word: reminded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a few unwary citizens were caught in the streets, promptly to be rescued by Red Cross volunteers wearing gas masks. Warsaw, a city of 1,200,000, was paralyzed by the sham raid for seven hours. That night the Government shut off all electric current to remind Warsawites that their central power station was supposed to have been destroyed...
...pile up four touchdowns and driving 63 yd. without the help of breaks for another. As usual, one touchdown and a heavy share of the kicking, passing and line-plunging were credited to wiry halfback Garry le Van who weighs little more than 150 Ib. and whose elusive hips remind Princeton oldtimers of Don Lourie...
...number of these energy levels mathematically. Then (by extrapolation of the 43-year-old Rydberg method) they mathematically expressed the light-wave frequencies represented by the five mysterious spectrum lines. Last, they brought the two sets of mathematical expressions together. In three cases the correspondence was close enough to remind them of keys fitting into locks, to enable them to say that most of "coronium" is oxygen...
...have a friendly understanding with France. Germany wants Peace!" Said Mr. Crane, on reaching Paris, "With all the dynamic force for which he is famous, Hitler literally burst out with this assertion. I had not asked him about his attitude toward France. . . . Hitler's gestures and pointblank statements remind me of Theodore Roosevelt." While French editors voiced confidence that Premier Daladier would not walk into the "Hitler trap" of separate negotiation with Germany-a step sure to estrange from France her "Little Entente" allies (Czechoslovakia. Jugoslavia, Rumania) and Poland-shaggy, excitable French Foreign Minister
...finished six months before his death (in January 1933). One More River winds up the Charwell (pronounced Cherrell) saga neatly enough, though Author Galsworthy had the serial habit too strongly not to leave a few threads dangling. Better than its two predecessors (Maid in Waiting, Flowering Wilderness), it should remind even impatient critics of Galsworthy that, in the words of one of his characters, "he may be an old buffer, but he's a nice...