Word: sawing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mighty pile of legislative lumber remained last week to be sawed by Congress before adjournment. But controversies between men at opposite ends of the saw grew hotter with the weather instead of abating...
...Sarajevo's 25th anniversary, they saw on the European horizon signs aplenty that the old war-ridden continent was again facing nerve-wracking summer days of crisis...
Last week German troops began to pour into the Tatra Mountains near the Polish frontier. Quickly rumors spread that Slovakia (whose autonomy Germany has guaranteed for 25 years) was to be partitioned at once between Hungary and the Third Reich. Poles, keeping a sharp eye on Nazi troops, saw only a flanking threat to Poland in the move, believed that probably Germans were simply fortifying their strategic position (as they have a right to by treaty) for future haggling over Danzig...
...outskirts), decided its architecture should be Gothic, even selected the stone for its buildings, a greenish-grey rock quarried in nearby Hillsboro, which he chose because it resembled Princeton's building stone. Buck directed that the campus should be dominated by a great Gothic chapel. When he saw the architect's plans, he ordered them changed, the 210-ft. tower moved to a commanding position in front...
Shrewd old Buck Duke saw to it that his University should remain Dukensian even after his death. Not only did he forbid the University to sell its Duke power stocks, but he directed Duke Endowment trustees (mostly officers in the Duke companies) to withdraw his money from the University Whenever it ceased to be operated "in a manner calculated to achieve the results intended hereby...