Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...colleagues on an appropriation of $25,000. To get his inquiry voted, Martin Dies (whose hatred of communists is his political stock-in-trade in Texas) enlisted the support of Representative Samuel Dickstein (whose hatred of Nazis is his political stock-in-trade on Manhattan's lower East Side). Publicity-wise Mr. Dickstein, anxious to revive the Nazi-hunting committee he headed in 1936, was glad to join Mr. Dies. They got their resolution passed-but when the committee was picked, angry Sam Dickstein was left...
...size of Manhattan's Radio City Music Hall) was blasted. Bombs fell in the grounds of the U. S.-owned Lingnan University, the oldest Christian college in South China, and ripped out a side of the French Paul Doumer Hospital, just across the narrow canal from the island of Shameen, Canton's foreign concession. Bombers power-dived over the settlement, built on a reclaimed sandbar, and released their loads directly above in order to plump them into the populous Chinese West Bund. Settlement police stood guard to beat back any Chinese who might plunge across the narrow canal...
...said.* Nevertheless, observers allowed that the Oriente still contained plenty of combustibles at week's end as Peru's President General Oscar R. Benavides pushed additional troops into the disputed jungle, concentrated army planes on the fringe to balance the Ecuadorian soldiers reported moving up to their side of the dividing line...
Rowing at number five oar in John Gardiner who has held down this position on the Varsity for two years. A perfect stylist, Gardiner rates with the captain as one of the country's best oarsmen. Walt Kernan, a burly Sophomore, at the number four side, succeeds his brother Reg at the job and what he lacks in form he makes up in power. Although experienced at number six on his Freshman crew, he has a tendency to lean out to port...
...other side of the ledger there appears to be only the vague objection that somehow twenty associate members would miraculously destroy a feeling of unity in the minds of two hundred and fifty colleagues. It is hard to understand the point of view which would attribute the these small groups the sweeping power of "turning the Houses into dormitories"; and when it is realized that the expedient is a temporary one, and that the benefit to the now homeless three hundred would far outweigh any possible inconvenience to the Houses, it seems very little to ask that the proposal...