Word: rife
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...believe that revolution in Germany is rife...
...broad-shouldered, bushy-mustached, pince-nezed Premier Viacheslav Molotov who looks something like the late Theodore Roosevelt, stutters explosively. Last week, when the Supreme Soviet or Russian Congress met in extraordinary session to admit new delegates from the slice of Poland taken by Dictator Stalin, curiosity was rife as to whether Orator Molotov would again, as in 1937, have to make three great efforts before his speech impediment would permit him to utter the most important cry in Russia: "Long live Comrade Sssssss. . . . Long live Comrade Stttttt. . . . Long live Comrade Stalin!" The long-suffering Premier last week had no trouble...
Sweden was almost as jittery as Finland. Rumors were rife that Comrade Stalin would soon issue an "invitation" to Swedish negotiators to come to Moscow and talk about mutual assistance pacts and Swedish-Russian naval bases. While the almost fully mobilized Swedish Army trained in earnest, home folk began feverishly to dig huge underground shelters...
...situation in the Faculty than it was last June. It appears, although it has never been stated to the student, that a stabilized budget is making solvent administration of this university more difficult. Certainly there can be no objection by students to wise and necessary economics. But confusion is rife among them as to exactly how they are affected by supposed economics and the educational policies underlying them. Perhaps the relations between the Administration and the Faculty are not yet of immediate concern to students, and they can watch that battlefield with remote interest. But questions exist as part...
...leaflets saying: "Hitler leads us to catastrophe-we want peace." The slogan, "Down with Hitler! Down with War!" was reported chalked on walls in big German cities. Slovak troops on the Polish front were reported sandwiched between German troops to guard against desertion. Passive resistance was reported rife in Slovakia, Bohemia and Moravia, with former anti-Nazis being rounded up by the thousands. The British Independent Labor Party reported it had received a message from German Independent Socialists: "Hitler begins war with Poland against the will of large masses of the population. German workers do not want this war; German...