Word: result
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...newsmen could get into the camps last week, but the story of the Spanish refugees' misfortunes began to reach the world. A horrified Parliamentary commission of French Leftists investigating conditions condemned the refugees' treatment, accused the guards of brutality. As a result of criticism, some efforts at improvement have recently been made. In the British House of Lords, Lord Faringdon asked that Britain cooperate with the French at once to end needless suffering. According to Lord Faringdon the refugee death rate was high...
Always small, the volunteer British Army has long had trouble getting enough healthy, sturdy recruits. Having lowered the physical requirements, Army officials last week reported the successful results of an experiment to feed some 1,900 skinny youths up to requirements. At two camps they have been getting a cup of tea and a biscuit before getting up; a breakfast of porridge, hot milk, liver and onion sauce, bread, butter and marmalade; a morning collation of an apple and milk; a lunch of meat pie, cabbage, mashed potatoes, soup, figs and custard; a good big high tea and a dinner...
...time being any notion that King Leopold was to become a royal dictator was checked. That question may again arise if the new elections result in the same old deadlocked divisions of Liberal v. Conservative, Walloon v. Fleming, that past elections have produced...
Like all but a handful of league hockey players, 35-year-old Eddie Shore is a Canadian and a scrapper. In his time he has overdone the latter, as a result has none of his own teeth left. His nose has been broken ten times. In one fracas with the Maroons six years ago he got his nose, jaw and four ribs broken, a twisted knee, two shiners. It was by accident that he upset Toronto's "Ace" Bailey in 1933, fracturing his skull, but his reputation was against him. He drew a 46-day suspension, spent most...
...Hitler's actual future policy as a result of this move, two plausible paths appeared to Potter. Either he is filling out his Southeastern boundary and protecting his rear preparatory to a move to the West towards Denmark and Holland, or he is continuing his move to the East and expanding the German Empire to include control of the Danube basin countries as outlined in "Mein Kampf...