Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first they had plenty of U. S., British and French soldiers. Definitely the apple-cheeked wenches of the Rhineland are open-armed to soldiers. One day last week they could be seen giggling from thousands of windows in such great cities as Cologne, Aachen, Frankfort and Düsseldorf as wild, electric rumors sped that Prohibition of German soldiers was almost over...
...Untouchable] leader was rather critical of Christianity's constant emphasis upon personal experience at the expense of any wider reference. 'Why have you not seen the importance of a religion that reaches out into all life and all relationships?' he asked. Continuing, he declared with deep feeling, 'If you are going to compromise with evil conditions while you stress personal religion exclusively, I tell you now I am not with...
...racquets in the U. S. The court is wider, the ball slower. Games are nine points instead of 15. Consequently the U. S. team which won the cup last year in Boston was at a considerable disadvantage defending it last week in London. However, not even onlookers who had seen members of the U. S. side being beaten by English ladies in the British National champion ship were fully prepared for what happened when the two teams met. England won all five matches. Three were in one sided straight games. The U. S. ladies got a total of two games...
...Camille Pissarro was the French Impressionist who looked like Monet. Last week the firm of Durand-Ruel, which has had almost a monopoly on Impressionist paintings for 50 years, gave at its Manhattan galleries the most complete one-man show of Pissarro's paintings the U. S. has seen...
...tenth of the total railroad operating income. It operates a little over one-tenth of the total cars and locomotives. Its books carry about one-tenth of the total railroad investment. It handles rather more than one-tenth of total railroad traffic. Like other roads, the Pennsylvania has seen its income, largest of any road in the land, cut in two by Depression. It took in $731,000,000 in 1929, dropped to $380,000,000 in 1934, recovered to $400,000,000 in 1935. Yet deficits have still to appear. In 1932. dismal rail-road year, it made...