Word: summered
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...After listening to conversation between Colonel Lindbergh & President Roosevelt at the White House, Rhode Island's Senator Green told friends that he would "advise any one against planning a trip to Europe this summer...
...Lindbergh & sons Jon (6) and Land (nearly 3) sailed last week from France to summer...
...Lushan Mountains, roughly 400 miles west of Shanghai, territory the Japanese have been fighting for since last summer, a fierce battle raged for nine hours. Afterward official Japanese dispatches claimed complete "annihilation" of 5,000 Chinese defending Kuling, the cool, hill-encircled summer resort where many foreigners used to escape down-country heat. Next day came the truth: Japanese troops had taken Kuling, but 2,500 Chinese defenders had broken through the Japanese lines and escaped...
...summer of 1929 in Germany there were 720,000 unemployed. That winter there were 2,000,000. Looming bigger in a new crisis was a 40-year-old World War corporal named Adolf Hitler. If he looked back on his last nine years, on the growth of his National Socialist Party, he could see gains more impressive to him than to Germany's rulers. Nine years before he had joined seven men in one of the innumerable visionary parties of desperation that post-War Germany produced. There were then seven and one-half marks in the party treasury. With...
...they were moving, and even the statesmen who tried to avert it had no conception of its terrible scope. On the evening of Aug. 3, 1914, when Great Britain pondered war, Sir Edward Grey stood at the window of the Foreign Office, watching the lamps being lit in the summer dusk, and said: "The lamps are going out all over Europe; we shall not see them lit again in our lifetime." To those who expect another war, his phrase seems optimistic ; many are in a mood to say: "They will never be lit again...