Word: snugly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...bill, the Pittman Neutrality measure, the Senate decorously ended its first session. That Evening the President appeared promptly behind the lectern of the Speaker's rostrum. Police and Secret Servants had checked " double-checked invitations and guests as they had arrived. Mrs. Roosevelt and the Boettigers were snug in the executive gallery. The diplomatic corps was notably minus the Japanese and Italian envoys...
...Roseau, Minn., Leon Plant, 65, indignantly refusing State and Federal relief, retired to keep house in a big, snug butter churn with a tight-fitting trap door (see cut), which he inherited four years ago from a former employer...
Oceanographic Institution, was back in its snug port after a month at sea, bringing a rich haul of new knowledge about the submerged land off the Atlantic Coast - harvest of an idea that the chunky, 50-year-old geology professor at Princeton University and his associates had been working on for three years. Dr. Field had no thought of learning anything new about the surface topography of the sea bottom. A great number of soundings with the old-fashioned line & sinker, more recently with the echo sounder, have disclosed that contour to oceanographers. Dr. Field wanted to know what...
...will soon swell to 500,000. Adolf Hitler, "Apotheosis of the Little Man," never rose above corporal's rank during the War and today lavishes unheard-of comforts on happy German soldiers. Crews of carpenters were busy last week replacing great, grim Prussian barrack rooms with small, snug squad rooms equipped with easy chairs, tables, cheerful curtains, hardwood floors and such lavish tiled lavatories as no other European army can boast...
...days before all Italy was aroused last week by the screech of Fascist sirens and the clang of Catholic church bells rung by special permission of the Pope, quiet Professor Felice Guarneri had matters of vital moment to discuss in his snug Roman office at the Ministry of Finance. One day last June the Professor was abruptly summoned by the Dictator, given absolute control over Italy's exports & imports. Since then no Italian has been able to get foreign exchange with which to buy anything abroad without Guarneri's O. K. No other man alive knows so much...