Word: swallowable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...left will be 100 tiny Philippine defense boats. Backing them up will be 250 airplanes. On land will wait a well-trained standing army, 400,000 trained reserves. If the greedy nation is in earnest, she will need 500,000 men, $10,000,000,000 and three years to swallow the islands...
...Commons committee room to discuss the aftermath of Italy's conquest of Ethiopia. Even the Parliamentary innocents who revolted so violently last December against the Hoare-Laval Deal to end the Ethiopian War were convinced that there was just one thing for the British lion to do: swallow its pride, lick its wounds and try to save what was left of the League of Nations. In secret recommendations to the Foreign Office, the committee added this warning: ''The Government must move with the utmost caution...
...early tea of Foreign Minister Anthony Eden last Sunday was the bitterest brew he had ever had to swallow. Read the dispatches any way he would, there was only one conclusion: Benito Mussolini had effectively smashed Ethiopia, wrecked the League of Nations and given British prestige an enormous black...
Last week Professor Paul John Hanzlik, a San Francisco pharmacologist who has long tried to dissolve bismuth in some fluid which syphilitics may swallow, announced success. His success implied a more comfortable method of treating the estimated 508,000 new cases of this venereal disease which develop in the U. S. each year...
...self-righteousness, filled with unconscious new ideals, answers through the mouth of Judge Ralph smith: "You chiseled every last dime you could. I don't see why you didn't choke on the food you got. I don't see how you could swallow it. This is unforgivable. I can't comprehend anything...