Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will be tiers of seats for 100,000 spectators at air shows. Conceived by Reichsfuhrer Adolf Hitler, the designs have been drawn by Air Ministry Architect Dr. Ernst Sagebiel, who plans not only to lay out the biggest paved space on earth but to demolish church steeples, chimneys, high tension towers for miles around...
...most dangerous. While Berlin was making a fine airport even finer, Washington could do no better last week than agree to regulate traffic around its 140-acre Hoover Field "to prevent collisions." Too close to military fields, cut in half by a public road, overhung by high tension wires, a bluff and an omnipresent Goodyear blimp, airline pilots last year protested to the Bureau of Air Commerce against Washington airport's further use for big, modern transports, threatened to quit landing there in 60 days. This speeded bills to enlarge the port, which were vetoed by President Roosevelt...
Allen Tate, noted American poet and critic, will give a free public lecture tomorrow afternoon (Thurs.) on "Tension in Poetic Imagery," in Sever Hall, 4:30 o'clock. The lecture is under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund...
...major revolt but a few Gold Shirts taking pot shots at police and Federal troops. After a day of skirmishing three Gold Shirts, one policeman, lay dead, 25 Gold Shirts were jailed. At dusk, Tamaulipas' Governor Marte R. Gómez took the Latin method of relieving tension. Alone, he strolled around the plaza at Matamoros. "It's time for the evening promenade," he purred to the cautious citizens. Soon eligible senoritas and the ardent young men joined in their usual strolls and the crisis was over. "Mexico is in a state of complete tranquillity," assured Government officials...
Days were remembered. His neighbors grumbld and came together secretly. They forwarded their grievance to the people. Some defended Eng, because he was strong; others went to him, because they admired his ways. Tension followed, and dissension. Then trouble, and open warfare that became more and more vicious and consumed houses and beasts and people. Eng prospered and at last established himself as the people. Thus was the wheeled rocket neglected in this epoch, and it rotted beneath the burning sun and the rain...