Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...unfolded plans made to pair with him at each following public function, with an added trip during the lull at New York to visit a friend of his, to take through the highways, byways, hellish beckonings at every turn, through similar routes from which thousands like her never return...
...Europe this summer: first a lightning-strike and then, if it fails, a deadlock in front of their defenses on the Western Front. If they win their Blitzkrieg they can take what they want; if they effect a deadlock, they can still bargain for concessions in return for Europe's peace...
...other side of the Mongol class struggle and lavished gifts and titles on the hereditary princes who have fled from Outer Mongolia. Some day, the Japanese tell them, there will be an independent Mongol confederation and the princes dispossessed by revolution will regain their land and power. In return, when the time comes for war with Russia, they are expected to lead a counterrevolution in Outer Mongolia and help fight...
...Negrin Government and set up a Defense Council with the avowed purpose of making peace with General Franco. Many believed that the French and British Governments, almost as anxious as Generalissimo Franco to end the War, had inspired Señor Besteiro's peace moves and that in return they had promised to intercede with the Nationalists for his life...
...Finnish Paavo Nurmi was the world's greatest distance runner, Yankee Babe Ruth cracked out his 416th home run, Bobby Jones won his third national amateur championship and Jack Dempsey was training for a return match with Champion Gene Tunney. That year a brown-eyed little Norwegian girl named Sonja Henie, having won her first world's championship, was about to win her first Olympic crown. For the comparatively few who took an interest in skating, she was the most famous woman skater in the world...