Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...their hands, the President stepped confidently in, summoned all the directors to explain their charges to him at the White House. Up to this point Washington had proceeded on the assumption that the TVA squabble was full of political dynamite. But Franklin Roosevelt in the past has seen plenty of such dynamite turn out to be a squib, and he knew the three TVA directors better than anyone else in Washington. And Franklin Roosevelt is a political showman without peer. Even so, Washington was hardly prepared for the kind of show he decided...
Three columns under Rightist Generalissimo Franco last week staged in central Aragón the widest offensive of Spain's 20-month-old war. During the first six days the Franco forces, behind the largest aerial concentration the war has seen, advanced along a 60-mile front, extending from Fuentes del Ebro southward to Montalban, recaptured Belchite and gained approximately 1,350 square miles of Leftist territory. Some 3,500 prisoners were taken, the Rightists announced, including 400 U. S. citizens of the Leftist Abraham Lincoln Battalion. At week's end one Rightist column was only about...
...other hand the Arnold Arboretum reported the sighting of a robin some time ago and added the comment that several others had probably been seen but that robins are so irregular in their date of return as not to fit reliably the harbinger role...
Cowles has seen all squash's greats, and coached most of them. "Comparisons are never satisfactory," he says, "particularly by a coach," but mentions Germaine Glidden's three-year victory in the nationals as one of the foremost feats in the history of the court game...
...Baron Maurice de Hirsch (1831-96), the great German Jewish philanthropist who spent millions trying to improve the lot of European Jews, to get them to emigrate from their ghettos. In 1900 there were 200 Jewish farmers in the U. S. Today, although many Americans have never seen any Jewish farmers, there are nearly 100,000, many of whom have benefited by the $7,500,000 in loans the Society has made...