Word: silent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Signor Grandi's positive demands, Prime Minister Andre Tardieu of France was not afraid to shout "No!" ten times more positively. He was also able to convince Italy that he had the silent backing of Britain and the U. S. Defeated in the first round, Signor Grandi withdrew his demand that ratios and total tonnages come first on the agenda, but saved the face of Signor Mussolini by a voluble oration to the effect that Italy "reserves" these points and will not join in any agreement reached by the conference until they have been settled...
...person kindly donates us the wherewithal, before we say anything about the subject, we feel that is ridiculous. We can never interest such a person, if he exists, in our improvement, unless we convince him that there is room for such improvement. And that is not accomplished by keeping silent. The Princeonian...
Reijiro Wakatsuki, Chief Japanese delegate is properly called "Mr. Wakatsky," the "u" being silent...
Supper was a sad, silent meal one evening last week aboard the ice-locked fur-ship Nanuk off the northeast coast of Siberia. Pilots Joe Crosson and Harold Gillam, flying the Arctic beach in the Amguyema River district, had come back with scraps of twisted metal, a side of bacon and a case of eggs from the wreckage of the plane in which, two and one-half months prior, flyers Carl Ben Eielson and Earl Borland vanished on a flight from Teller, Alaska to the Nanuk with supplies (TIME, Jan. 6). The bodies of Eielson and Borland were...
...questions asked are silent testimony of the desire of the officials in charge to allow men to show what they did know instead of what they did not know. But the length of the examination cut short (because of the purely physical limitations of writing) the answers of those who were eager to push beyond the obvious and often repeated facts...