Word: sures
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When seen the Bremen was in drydock and was hastily having its abovedeck superstructure dismantled for immediate conversion into an aircraft-carrier. As far as this gentleman could ascertain work was proceeding ahead on twenty-four-hour schedule. Local people did not know for sure what the identity of the drydocked vessel was, but it was understood among shipping people that it could only have been the Bremen...
...kind by a third power with this settlement'' and described itself as laying "a foundation for progressing development of friendly relations between [the German & Russian] peoples." In outward token of chumminess, Herr von Ribbentrop, whose German aides on the occasion of his first visit said they were sure his Russian hosts were too tactful to ask him to meet a Jew, banqueted in the Kremlin cheek by jowl with two Jewish Soviet Cabinet Commissars...
...hope the day will come when the Admiralty will be able to invite ships of all nations to join the British convoys and in sure them on their voyages at a reasonable rate. . . . We hope . . . that by the end of October we shall have three times as many hunting craft at work as we had at the beginning of the war. . . . We hope that our means of putting down this pest will grow continually...
...more important than death; French and British youth have found their cause in Hitler's aggressions. But last week as 1,250,000 U. S. students of military age assembled peaceably on the grounds of 1,500 colleges and universities (see p. 46), they were still quite sure they had nothing to fight for, and some of them doubted whether any cause was worth the unpleasantness of dying...
Time was when Dartmouth men had a blue suit for Sunday, a sweater and slacks for weekdays. The transition has come suddenly and strangely; we're not sure we like it; we certainly can't explain it, and our heart goes out to the individual caught between two eras, risking a split personality as he is buffered back and forth between the old and the new, not knowing where to turn. We have in mind a man we saw at Sunday dinner. Dressed in a new tweed jacket, of whalebone pattern, and wearing the black knit tie, he pulled from...