Word: standings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Saguenay and the British cruisers Glasgow and Southampton, the Empress put out to sea, while crowds ashore roared God Save the King. From the bridge the King and Queen waved their farewell; the Queen was almost invisible behind the high railing until something was brought for her to stand on. On Chebucto Head a great smelly bonfire of wood, oil and old tires, visible for 80 miles, was built to cheer them on their way. But for a brief stop at St. John's, capital of Newfoundland, Britain's oldest colony, a week of unbroken rest was ahead...
...hills on the coast of Indo-China drop steeply to the sea, continue their sharp decline beneath the surface, so that the water where the Phenix disappeared is 365 to 375 feet deep. Built to stand pressures down to 330 feet, the hull of the submarine probably collapsed when it plunged to the bottom. Persistent oil slicks on the surface confirmed this theory. France, which possesses no escape bells of the type used in the Squalus rescue, had just opened negotiations with the U. S. for the purchase of four, but even if one had been available it would have...
...When the democracies accuse us of lack of political morality, it is because they have history behind them while we stand before ours-and youth is usually more immoral than old age. An old proverb says that the worst prostitutes become the most devout deaconesses in old age-and it is the same way in politics...
...years he pursued a policy of buying off and placating the Japanese. He failed to stand in their way in 1931, when they grabbed at Manchuria. He failed to back up the courageous Chinese Nineteenth Route Army when it fought against Japanese invaders of the Chapei district of Shanghai in 1932. He let the northern province of Jehol fall into Japanese hands...
...gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first bothering to ascertain whether the Japanese economy could stand a long...