Word: switzerland
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...worked with our tongues in our cheeks often-clipping the home papers and altering date lines, coining the expression that "it never rains on the Riviera and there's always snow in Switzerland" as we headed the press releases sent in by our advertisers, and damning the sheet for the gutless wonder it always has been-but there were times when I think our work refuted your claim the paper was run by "smalltown newspapermen...
...Mesopotamia were buried, in big underground chambers, with multitudes of sacrificed servants. The skull and face forms of these old Near Easterners are almost identical with those of living Englishmen. Ancient Egyptian skulls resemble those in 17th-Century London plague pits, in New Stone Age box graves of Switzerland. Science has had much to puzzle over in these resemblances, and many others in the intricately shuffled complex of races, sub-races, types and varieties in Europe's white population...
...willing to give assurance that .your armed forces will not attack or invade the territory or possessions of the following nations: Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, The Netherlands, Belgium, Great Britain and Ireland, France, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Poland, Hungary, Rumania, Yugoslavia, Russia, Bulgaria, Greece, Turkey, Iraq, the Arabias, Syria, Palestine, Egypt and Iran...
Last week Switzerland told the League it would no longer be a welcome guest in case of war. So the League sat down and talked over how to evacuate Geneva and where to go-probably to France...
...great days. She was freelancing in Paris in 1892, when a slight, restless, sandy-haired young man bounded up the 80 steps to her apartment, announced that he was Samuel Sidney McClure, said he could stay only ten minutes, talked over plans for articles for hours, rushed off to Switzerland after borrowing $40 from his future star contributor...