Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...debate in Congress over the Neutrality bill had been an opaque mess to Vag. Each side seemed right, and yet they disagreed bitterly. Who dared to doubt the sincerity of the Lion of Idaho, Senator Borah; or the high-mindedness of the President, who surely knew that his place in history was secure if he succeeded in keeping the U. S. out of war? Vag even began to wonder if this were not just a great sham battle, masking the intrigues of powerful men behind the scenes...
Enno R. Hobbing '40 and William N. Dale '40, president and managing editor of the social science review, take the other side of the intramural debate and rap the Administration sharply for its "present retreating, retrenching course of action...
...publishing the photograph purportedly taken by a Nazi fighting plane which followed a Nazi bomber in the first air raid on the Firth of Forth three weeks ago. A cloud of smoke was shown over the cruiser Edinburgh, described as a bomb striking the ship's port side aft of the second funnel. Official British account of the Firth of Forth raid maintained that Edinburgh was not hit directly, but suffered seven casualties when fragments flew aboard from bombs striking the water nearby. Where there is smoke there is not necessarily a hit, and the picture may have told...
...that gives The 'Great Commandment its nerve-tingling, eerie power. Good shot: the faces of unbelievers changing from scorn to incredulity as Jesus tells the story of the Good Samaritan (whom they regard as an Englishman does a Liverpool Irishman) who did not pass by on the other side...
...black, slipped quietly out of Kiel, nosed through cold, thick fog toward the Norwegian coast, headed at top speed (eleven knots) into the teeth of the North Sea blockade. She was the commerce raider Wolf, commanded by stocky, hand some, canny Karl August Nerger. Cunningly concealed behind hinged steel side she carried a wicked assortment of 5.1 guns, torpedo tubes, machine guns, 45: mines. Her orders: to mine the chief British colonial ports...