Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...This Congress has ended on the side of the people. My faith in the American people-and their faith in themselves- have been justified. I congratulate the Congress and the leadership thereof and I congratulate the American people on their own staying power...
...barrier against the eastward push of Teutonic tribes, but never has its protective power been of such worldwide concern as in 1938. Inhabited largely by Germans, the whole length of the fence has come to be known as the Sudeten region, although the Sudetes Mountains form only the northern side...
...feint in Czechoslovakia's direction when he moved 170,000 troops into "summer barracks" nearer the border. He had just Nazified Austria while French and Germans stood by with open mouths. Their mouths were still open when the Reich's soldiers began ominously moving around on their side of the Czechoslovak border. In this crisis the Czechoslovakian Republic, the keystone of democracy in central Europe, marched 400,000 troops up to its side of the border and the first German over the line would have been a dead German. Thus that crisis was solved, and little Eduard Benes...
President Benes believes that the "Fascintern" will collapse of its own armor-plated weight. He thinks the job of the democracies is to avoid war at almost any cost until time comes to their side. Eduard Benes is thus an optimist. He refuses to believe that Germany will attack his little State. His optimism he bases on three considerations...
...only skyscraping girls' school in the world'' is small (600 students) Mundelein College, which is lodged near Lake Michigan in a 15-story building on Chicago's North Side. A popular teacher of physics and botany at Mundelein is Sister Mary Therese, member of the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, daughter of a Chicago contractor. When Mundelein moved into its skyscraper in 1930, it was seen that only two of its three elevator shafts would be needed for vertical traffic. This gave bespectacled Sister Mary, who was then in her late 205, an idea. Last...