Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Through the night they could hear the metallic clatter of tank treads, the ripping tear of exhaust from trucks mired in the mud, the metallic jangle of troops in large numbers on the move. To the Allies this could mean only one thing: the Germans were moving up troops along the entire front, perhaps were readying for an attack in force. Into action went French artillery -slim 75s, big-mouthed 155s, even a few long-snouted railroad guns of big calibre, firing across the line for the first time since the war began...
After the war, he rose in the Royal Air Force, married Olive Tennyson Foster, of Back Bay, Boston, and settled down to a life of thorough work and enthusiastic gardening. Now he is red-faced, grey-haired, tightlipped, taciturn, tough-a model of a gallant airman. The only thing he loves better than a party is a party from which newspapermen are barred. There is, however, one thing he hates more than a reporter-any man who shows...
...dusk last week† shop talk was the same. Oldsters held forth about the good old days when there were flights of 150,000,000 ducks instead of 65,000,000, when the season was 3½ months long instead of 45 days, and there was no such thing as daily bag limits (this year's daily bag limit is ten ducks, four geese or brant). Tyros tickled oldsters with their newfangled theories learned on the skeet fields. Everyone grumbled about the Federal "nuisance" regulations: no shooting before 7 a.m. or after 4 p.m.; no more than three shells...
...most important factor in getting America into the last war was the barrage of propaganda to which our people were subjected. That same propaganda is going on today. The first thing you know they will be seeing subs going up the Charles. It is therefore extremely important for the welfare of the American people that public opinion be formed in the light of past experience rather than in an atmosphere of excitement and sentimental and educational appeals. Don't let our vast wealth and the lives of our young men be the cat's paw of European diplomatic greed...
Here is an issue which can be brought out into the light of day. And one thing is clear: that the Administration will have its hands full dealing with the advocates of these men who have been wronged, and with faculty champions of efficient undergraduate teaching...