Word: stilles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...first time that M.I.T. had been defeated in four years of dinghy sailing Because of the lack of wind the sailing was not too good, and the last race was called off. Thus the outcome is still debatable...
...Believed still alive, von Mücke - last accounted for in Nazi Germany - may be on the threshold of new war adventures...
...correspondent asked Mr. Roosevelt whether the Administration's known intent to ask Congress for still more money for a bigger Big Navy means that he favors a "two-ocean navy." That phrase, said the President, is a beautiful slogan, meaningless in practice. Then he turned to a press-conference guest, Publisher Joe Patterson of the New York Daily News, said the same thing applies to that gentleman's favorite epigram ("Two Ships For One"). What the U. S. must have, the President went on, is a Navy big enough for its maximum, varying defense needs in any ocean...
...signs that President Roosevelt gave last week, he might not have known that the Senate was still engrossed in its Great Debate. Neither oblivious nor negligent, Mr. Roosevelt was simply complying with the admonition laid down by his Senate strategists, Key Pittman and Jimmy Byrnes: "Stay out of the Neutrality fight." By staying out, he exhibited a restraint remarkable for him, regrettable for Senate Isolationists, who would welcome nothing more than a rousing White House scare to scare off Administration votes...
...sees no great possibilities of concluding peace now, but as long as sham war continues he claims there is still a chance...