Word: seriousness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Bird No. 1: a serious labor shortage in Nazi Germany, caused by the gigantic public works program and feverish rearmament efforts. Bird No. 2: serious unemployment in Czecho-Slovakia, caused by German grab of Czech industrial areas and the pre-Munich influx of refugees from Austria and the Sudetenland. Last week Prague and Berlin devised a stone to kill both birds: a plan to send 80,000 to 100,000 unemployed Czech workmen to Germany. Time: this spring...
Nobody in Chile has ever taken the five year-old Nacista party very seriously except the Nacistas. The Nacistas take everything seriously. Last week the Nacista Congress at Santiago was very grave about a serious mistake everybody (except the Nacistas) had made for a long time-namely, confusing the word Nacista with the word Nazi. The latter, they said has horrid meanings; Nacista has the most innocent root in the world- "birth...
...railroads (all but the last largely U. S.-owned); 2) creation of a State-owned bank and merchant marine; 3) housing for Chile's underpaid workers. Having thus clarified a world-wide misunderstanding-all based on the meaning of one little word-the newly born Vanguardians heaved a serious sigh and adjourned...
...halls. Average picture-production cost is about $15,000. Invasion by Japan has not interrupted Chinese cinema production. While Sable Cicada, which took two years to make, was in production at Shanghai, the studio was bombed twice. (Studio officials kept blueprints of the sets so that, in case of serious damage, they could be promptly rebuilt...
...English language has been The Criterion, published in London under the editorship of T. S. Eliot. The current issue carries Editor Eliot's announcement that The Criterion is at an end. To the reading public at large, this news meant little, not so to many a writer and serious reader on both sides of the Atlantic...