Word: return
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only former German territories now in Belgium's hands are the cattle-raising Ruanda plateau and the Urundi district, both part of German East Africa, ceded to Belgium by a League of Nations mandate. As to the return of these properties, Belgians last week said nothing...
...however, nor a sheriff, nor newshawks who visited the farm saw him. Heavenly Gates declared: "I have found the peace I have been looking for." Dean Neidlinger, satisfied there was "no monkey business" about Gates's trip to the farm, departed announcing that Gates was still free to return to Dartmouth. At length, after four days of wrestling with what by week's end had become the most publicized young conscience in any U. S. college, Harrington Gates returned. Dean Neidlinger recorded his absence as "excused," said that Dartmouth was "content with his decision to give up football...
...canal up to date. Now it is used chiefly by canoeists, but by 1945 it is expected to be able to accommodate 1,200-ton lighters. Moving cheaply from Greater Germany down into the Danube and Balkan countries, these are expected to extend German influence and manufactured goods markets, return laden with ore, cereals and oil to fill the German need for raw materials...
...crotchety misogynists (at least during working hours) who refuse to allow women sportswriters to sit in its press boxes. The fraternity enjoys such perquisites as free sojourns in the South during spring training and deluxe road trips during the season (usually as guests of the major-league clubs). In return, the Association's members keep baseball alive by reporting its games at great length and they also perform the annual post-season chore of selecting the "most valuable player" in each major league...
...money. A student of typefaces, he sometimes uses 40 in a single booklet. His favorite is New Pica typewriter type, very simple. One way or another he makes his questionnaires as interesting as a game. At first, in fact, recipients were so pleased with them that they would not return them. Weaver solved this by sending them out in duplicate, letting the customer keep one, fill in the other. Other discoveries: a footnote gets more attention than a headline; sometimes a messy carbon of a letter will pull more replies than the original...