Word: stage
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Netherlands was not divulged. All autumn the Belgians had worked feverishly to fortify their northern frontier, and the Dutch drilled dynamite into their roadside trees, against the much-feared German invasion which might come when the ground froze. Suddenly last week, the tempo changed, Belgium ordered the fourth stage of mobilization (the first three stages were completed last September), calling up 75,000 more men and bringing her armed strength to some 600,000. Trucks loaded with supplies and soldiers rolled through Brussels while civilians piled sandbags around buildings and factories. Messengers rushed through every Belgian city, summoning officers...
...possible, shorten this war? We must save; we must control imports; we must do without commodities that are not necessary; we must, if required, ration them in order that all may share and share alike." [Applause.] Mr. Chamberlain called the present stage of hostilities the "quiet of the calm before the storm," warned that Britain "shall have to face a phase of this war much grimmer than anything we have seen yet." He wound up: "In his recent message to the Pope, the President of the United States declared that only by friendly association by the seekers of light...
James Thurber, famous for illustrating The War Between the Sexes with his runaway pencil, has carried the combat to the stage. The Male Animal tells of a young English professor (Elliott Nugent) who has all the trouble that Thurber thinks the male animal is born to. The prof gets branded a Red for wanting to read one of Vanzetti's letters to his class. He gets all tangled up with his wife when an old sweetheart of hers comes to town for a football game. A Milquetoast by nature, the professor quaffs too much of the cup that emboldens...
...Waldron's fine second in the breaststroke in addition to Kraus' third had clinched the meet so the stage was let for a renewal of the Powers-Gibbons classic struggle in the quarter. The race has almost an exact counterpart of their meeting last year as the two Juniors battled side by side for 400 yards. Again it was Gibbons, swimming his only event of the night, who had a couple of feet of extra drive enabling him to outreach Powers at the finish...
...final arguments of the Ames Competition of the Law School clubs next Thursday night will set the stage for the first appearance of a U. S. Supreme Court Justice as a judge in the competition; when Justice Owen J. Roberts will help to select the ablest law team in the Senior Class of the Law School...