Word: tensions
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Meanwhile a crowd was gathering to watch the spectacle, which was enhanced by the addition of an anonymous woman who seemed to be even better trained than the dog. Assuming a stand with her hands on her hips she equally matched the pointer immobility. The tension became intense as the two vied for honors to determine who could last the longest. Finally a humane student, probably a Student Union member, fearing both would drop from exhaustion, let out a high pitched shriek which called the squirrel's attention to the matter. The rodent scampered up the nearest tree, the hypnotic...
...France and Germany, signed last week in Paris a vaguely worded, three-article declaration in which the two countries: 1) pledged "pacific and good-neighborly relations"; 2) recognized the "frontier of their two countries as it is at present established"; 3) promised to consult together in case of international tension. The new pact was widely accepted as meaning: 1) that Germany in black & white renounced all claims to Alsace-Lorraine (which Adolf Hitler has verbally already done); 2) that France agreed not to interfere with Germany's political, economic drive in the Balkans...
...flop. When the Jewish pogroms flared up, German stock in Britain fell to zero, and all thought of giving Germany anything now had to be dropped. Mr. Pirow direly predicted: "Unless there is a complete change of outlook within a month or two the international tension will reach the breaking point during spring of next year...
...large section of the students regard the people in the way the Progressive charges. It is more probable that most of them have little opinion one way or another about the Cantabridgians save after infrequent goading by Don Quixote and his ilk. It is reasonable to believe that the tension between Harvard and its community arises from less serious reasons than class feeling and ideological cleavage. The relation between the Council's attempts to divert attention from the abnormal tax rate and the value of the University property should be studied, and the passing (it is hoped) of the current...
...handle" ends are attached to a wire which runs through a pulley at the head of the bed. Weights varying from five to 30 lb., according to the amount of tension needed, are attached to the end of the wire or rope, thus pulling the head upward and backward, keeping the vertebrae slightly apart. Patients can move freely in bed, can eat and sleep in normal positions. Installation of the tongs is not at all painful, for the skull is almost completely insensitive...