Word: roome
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Finland Station in Leningrad is the place where Lenin got off the train on the night of April 3, 1917, to take charge of the Russian revolution. There in the cold, draughty Tsar's Room of the depot, he stood looking uncomfortable while newly elevated bigwigs welcomed him with speeches and with a bouquet that he handled as gingerly as if it had been a bomb. The phrase "to the Finland Station" has a symbolic meaning, implies something like a rendezvous with destiny...
From his regular 45-minute morning constitutional on Park Avenue, Herbert Hoover returned one day last week to his Waldorf-Astoria sitting-room suite, summoned the press. He had polished up a 1932 idea to fit the exigencies of the Great Debate on U. S. neutrality...
...John Nance Garner. At about ball-game time each day the Senate sits he bowlegs his way through tall swing-doors to survey the chamber scene-fresh unlit cigar in hand, little Neon-blue eyes flickering, his back-hair ruffled from his after-lunch nap. Reality always enters a room with John Garner, and last week his impatience with empty gabble, his dislike of oratorical set-pieces, brought the high-flown debate down to earth...
Moreover, in what was once western Poland the Führer would make room for those who wanted land in the Polish Corridor. The hundreds of thousands of Poles in the Corridor were to be pushed eastward into whatever rump Poland the Führer decided to create. Later, some 80,000 Germans living in Russian Poland were expected to be exchanged for the Ukrainians and White Russians still left in German Poland. There were still further hints of greater mass migrations to come, of repatriating other widely scattered German populations in Europe: 800,000 in Rumania...
...circumvent these difficulties, Sir Kingsley Wood last week announced a vitally new plan: Canada, where are to be found both clear weather and flying room, would become the advanced training centre for military airmen of the whole British Empire. When the machinery was ready, Canada would turn out about 800 skilled airmen every month...