Word: sided
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enrollment, efficient Mrs. Mudd was named at the national convention in Philadelphia as president of the Girl Scouts. Her program: new emphasis on the home as the smallest unit of democracy; training of Girl Scouts as homemakers rather than campfire-tenders. She re-emphasized the less glamorous, more practical side of Girl Scouting: not knot-tying but helping Mama with the dishes. On this program the rank & file were not consulted...
Able diplomatist that he is, His Holiness had foreseen that the Allies would fight. He had been "convinced that the use of force on one side would be answered by recourse to arms on the other." More important, devout Catholic that he is, he knew which side he was for, and, unlike his predecessors during War I, said...
Deutschland vanished and the prize crew, armed with pistols and daggers, sailed Flint northeast, through icebergs and bitter cold. They made a Danish flag, painted out the U. S. flags on the ship's side, altered her funnel, changed her name to Alf. They got jittery watching for British warships, put a time bomb in the engine room to blow up their prize rather than surrender her. After eleven days they arrived, not in Germany, but at Tromsö, Norway, flying a German flag. Authorities here saw through Flint's disguise, let the prize crew take fresh water...
...traveling at "terrific speed", State Police, who are investigating the case, said last night. Wheeler's bicycle was found three quarters of a mile away from the site of the crash. Apparently the driver turned into a side road at this point and removed the wrecked bike from his front bumper...
...soul is full of discord and dismay." All during the lecture he nodded and frowned and bowed and articulated to himself. When the instructor read a particularly stirring passage, the little man would shut his book, lean back in his chair, and with eyes closed, would sway from side to side like a cobra, hypnotized by the music of the verse...