Word: shapes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With a week's practice behind them, eight House football squads are rounding into shape for the first set of games tomorrow and Friday afternoons...
Like piling thunderheads blanketing the whole horizon, last week a Great Debate took shape over the U. S. Could the U. S. keep out of Europe's war? Not for 20 years had U. S. citizens heard such ominous rumbling, not for 20 years had they searched the political skies with such anxiety. For they knew that, unless providentially the storm moved harmlessly on, the lightning issues of that debate would strike home to every man and woman in the nation...
Difference. Observers patiently comparing the weeks of September 1914, with the weeks of September 1939, got nowhere. People who had expected war's outbreak in terms of London raided, Berlin bombed, poison gas, bacteriological war, H. G. Wellsian Shape-of-Things-to-Come war-beginning in terror, developing in devastation, ending in anarchy-found the drama otherwise than their imaginations had pictured. People who recalled troops going off to battle in World War I remembered singing crowds, enthusiasm, cheers, tears, flowers, flags, and were puzzled at the stoic silence, the grave efficiency, that marked the moves of this...
Last week the U. S. took its place in a world at war. That enormous fact shaped the stratagems of statesmen and soldiers in Europe (see p. 15). It changed the shape of Government in Washington (see p. 11). It stirred and troubled The People, by whose consent alone the U. S. can go all the way to war. Upon no one man but upon all, its awful burden lay. To the man who more than any other can guide the U. S. toward or away from war, it was fascinating and profoundly stimulating. Franklin Roosevelt, man of crises, went...
...Germany's total of over 100 divisions) known to be on the Polish Front. All week official Berlin continued to pretend that all was quiet on the Western Front, at week's end scornfully admitting "occasional little exchanges." The French reported a German counteroffensive taking shape in front of Trier, aimed at a key part of the Maginot Line in Sierk, north of Metz. This was designed to reduce the pressure of the French drive toward Neunkirchen. Should the fighting swing west from there, it would likely level the home of Hitler's roving Ambassador, Franz...