Word: steers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...average concentrator will do well to steer clear of the Department unless he has a burning fervor for German, but men with a genuine interest and ability will be able to do useful work in the field. There is a strong possibility, however, that the efficiency of the new introductory courses will bring students more rapidly to a knowledge which will allow them to enjoy the literature than has previously been the case...
Somewhere out in the field Haile Selas sie still controlled a sizable body of troops, but the end of his ancient kingdom was rapidly approaching. When no news from the front had reached Addis Ababa for days, Correspondent Steer of the New York Times hopped on a truck with a British Army major to deliver 1,850 home made gas masks to Crown Prince Asfa Wassan's troops at Dessye...
...mile or two behind him. Just at dusk the Crown Prince came down from his mountain hideaway on muleback to pack his personal belongings at the old palace. At the first bursts of rifle fire on the outskirts of town, he scuttled back to the hills. Correspondent Steer and the British major waited no longer. Loading four Seventh Day Adventist missionaries and a sick Belgian officer into the back of their truck, they lit out for Addis Ababa. Just as they left town the hillsides behind them flashed like a thousand fireflies with blazing rifles. Aeroplane-directed Galla warriors marched...
...took four days of the hardest going for Correspondent Steer to get back to Addis Ababa. Yet Benito Mussolini expected Marshal Badoglio to cover the same distance with his cumbersome army in three days, so as to give the Italian people a spectacular victory on the anniversary of the founding of Rome (April 21, 753 B. C.). In this dilemma Marshal Badoglio yelled for his colleague in the south, General Graziani, to take the puck...
...ranch in Colorado. The hired man they had was helpful, but "his wife always went out and lay down in the grass after she washed the dishes or did any work, because she said she was delicate. She wasn't a pioneer." Ranch biology they found engrossing. "A steer is a bull they fix so he can't give any germs to the cows to make calves." Neither Republicans nor Democrats could object to their comment on Roosevelt II: "President Roosevelt must be a very rich man because he gives all his money to the people...