Word: rightness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...everyone was watching the big race of the day." Significantly, Lloyd's of London not long ago refused to write insurance on the life of strong and healthy Rumanian Premier Armand ("Little Hercules") Calinescu. Last week this actuarial judgment proved sound as foul murder and bloody vengeance erupted right in the middle of Bucharest, within five minutes walk of the Royal Palace...
Since both Japan and conquered areas of China were neutral with regard to Europe's war, said the lawyers, they had a perfect right to ask belligerents (Great Britain and France) to withdraw all military and naval posts...
...business of shelling LwÓw was taken over by Soviet artillery. In the week's only show of cross-purposes between Berlin and Moscow, Nazi newsorgans claimed that LwÓw actually fell before the besiegers withdrew, but there seemed little doubt that Communist papers were right in reporting that Russians captured LwÓw. On its whole broad drive into Poland, the Red Army reported taking 120,000 Polish prisoners, capturing 380 pieces of artillery, 120 airplanes...
...these 18 years. To picture this cathedral to the architect, he played the Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre on a phonograph. "There you have it," he said. "Climax rising above climax." As Dr. Bowman's Cathedral rose, so did his highhandedness. He fired liberal teachers right and left; during the purge 25 walked the plank, 59 quit. When the American Association of University Professors blacklisted the university, Dr. Bowman snapped: "What of it?" He weathered an investigation by the Pennsylvania Legislature, which in 1935 threatened to cut off the university's life line of State...
...insiders knew that Jock had become fed up with Dr. Bowman. As Jock walked out, students staged a boisterous strike, proclaimed : "We've had enough of this dictatorship." Alumni began to demand that "Big John" and "Little John" (roly-poly Business Manager John Weber, John Bowman's right-hand man) resign. "At the request of Chancellor Bowman," the trustees hastily appointed a committee to investigate Dr. Bowman's administration...