Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Australia's tiny eleven-year-old capital, Canberra, British Air Marshal Sir Edward Ellington, Inspector-General of the Royal Air Force, was recently invited by the Australian Government to inspect the Commonwealth's proud fighting air arm. Sir Edward came, saw and last week issued a pants-slapping report...
...feel convinced that all dispute and trouble can be settled with good will and united effort." But shrewd Queen Wilhelmina, with a good share of her $5,000,000 annual income coming from her eastern lands, trusts little in "good will and united effort" to safeguard them. Recently she saw to it that the native garrisons were increased, that a new 8,000-ton cruiser was laid down for service in the Far East and that the number of formidable Dornier flying boats in The Netherlands Indies Naval Air Service was increased to 42. And last month when...
Although Lazaro Cardenas is a poor, mumbling speaker without Latin fire or grace, the General brought Mexico's pistol-toting Congressmen to their feet shouting "Viva!" again & again last week. They saw at once that with almost every word President Cardenas was baiting Secretary Hull. Mr. Hull had laid down in diplomatic terms that it is a violation of international law for Mexico to expropriate without immediate compensation. General Cardenas laid down in non-diplomatic terms that what Mexico has done is "for the greatest good of the greatest number of people," and said that in international law there...
...experts agreed that Australia had little chance of winning the Cup. Except for a brief shock the following day when the Australians took the doubles in a sensational reversal of form, the 9,000 spectators who filled the stands each day saw just what they had expected to see. Budge beat both Quist and Bromwich in routine fashion, clinched the series before the concluding match, lost by Riggs to Bromwich...
...Paris, Georges Meunier saw a dog coming towards him. whose looks he did not like at all. Fearing that the dog was about to bite him, Georges Meunier bit the dog first. Police arrested him. Said Georges Meunier: "I decided to get him before he got me. Anyhow, I never knew it was an offense to bite...