Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...with the exception of two charming families who, by the way, did not mix with the others. They stared and made loud comments about fellow passengers, they were rude and demanding with the stewards, they made the decks and public rooms as untidy and dirty as I have never seen them on a German boat, were noisy during concerts and made as free with others' deck chairs and rugs as with their own. It may sound petty, but over a week of constant bad manners gets on your nerves...
...industry, would not rumble much longer unless John Lewis and the operators agreed on a new labor contract. Unless 460,000 miners went back to work in Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois, Kentucky, 22 other coal-bearing States, there might be such a strike as the U. S. has not seen in the days of Franklin Roosevelt...
Bismarck to Stinnes. In 1913 Kaiser Wilhelm II received from the Association for International Conciliation congratulations on his reign of peace. Within the next 25 years, Germany had fought the greatest war in history, seen its Kaiser flee to Holland, gone through the most harrowing political, social and economic disorders in modern times and emerged the scar-covered bully-boy of the world. The Germany of Kaiser Wilhelm's day differs from the Germany of Adolf Hitler's day in that it had 18,778,491 fewer people and 50,545 fewer square miles in Europe. Aggrandizer Hitler...
...wattle screens, and sculpture by Lachaise, Despiau, Zorach, Lipchitz. One fair spring night it was filled with hundreds of men with starched white bosoms, and hundreds of rustling ladies. Back of them stood a new, long, spacious building faced with marble and glass; inside it other crowds could be seen, swishing past its plate-glass panels like frilly fish in a bright aquarium. Occasion for these beautiful doings was the formal opening of the long-awaited, permanent home of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art (since 1937 temporarily camped in offices and basement galleries of the TIME & LIFE Building...
...since Captain Art Johns led the 1936 Crimson yearling nine undefeated through a 21 game schedule has Harvard seen such a powerful team as the present one. St. Marks was the most recent fee to feel the Yardling power 17 to 5 was the score, with nine runs coming in the big first boning...