Word: somes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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With World War II it was surer than shellfire that somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead. A small new company brought the title up to date as Hitler, the Beast of Berlin, tacked it to a film about the horrors of concentration camps. The picture might have...
Harbert, Mich., is a crossroads town about 60 miles east of Chicago across the lake. To get there you have to drive through the gritty desolation of South Chicago, through Gary, where in autumn the blast furnaces at night make a glowering sheet lightning, through the smoke of Michigan City...
When Sandburg gave his first two volumes a rigorous rewriting in manuscript in 1935, he scaled down four opening chapters on the background of secession into one, making a packed picture of which he suspects "there are some pages over which people will stop and wonder." It was a time...
William Henry Seward, Lincoln's cigar-chewing Secretary of State, was capable of trying to run the President and also capable of realizing he couldn't. Seward had tried to stave off war. "Night and day he had conferred and negotiated, become weary and rusty, vulgar and profane...
"Russia's outrageous invasion of Finland...is a direct consequence of Hitler's Russian policy last August, and it will increase the growing unrest in Germany, which some day may result in the overthrow of the Hitler regime," Sidney B. Fay '96, professor of History, declared Saturday in the Guardian...