Word: things
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...best Neighbors were Rumania and Czechoslovakia, which with Yugoslavia functioned as the French-backed Little Entente. Yugoslavia now is a key power in the four-year-old Balkan Entente- Yugoslavia, Rumania, Greece, Turkey. All these States grabbed land from Bulgaria after the Balkan and World Wars, and the one thing they have most in common is their resolve not to give any of it back. They also are resolved not to be the puppets they once were. There is safety in numbers, and they believe in fighting shy of exclusive totalitarian economic alliances. This new, independent European bloc...
...seems neither to have seen nor heard, at that instant roared out of the storm, screamed its warning and struck. A young bo named Witter, who was riding an icy tank car near the engine, jumped out in the snow to see what had happened. "It was the awfullest thing I ever saw," he said...
...appeared at Independence Hall in Philadelphia in a moment of great hesitation and doubt and made an impassioned plea for the signing of the Declaration of Independence. When they turned around, after the signing, to thank him, he had disappeared." The Ballards' prayer: "Let us have every good thing, including money." Backstage in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall, while the Philharmonic's fiddles were a tuning, its doorman and its conductor, Londoners both, celebrated a common birthday. Augustus ("Gus") Wade, a short, military Britisher with grey handle bar mustaches, who for 45 years has been as much...
Irene Brown was the first girl to own or exhibit a Grand Champion steer, and Judge Cumber called it a wonderful achievement." Said Irene: "I have just one thing to say to the girls ... we can do anything on the farm or in the city that the men can." When her steer, which won about $900 in prize money, was prodded out of the Amphitheatre's doors two days later, it was auctioned off at $3,785-$3.35 for every one of its 1,130 lb., the highest price fetched since 1929. Shortly Mercer will go, as all steers...
...most important aspect of this questionnaire, and the thing that in the light of the pre-election foolishness will be hardest to prove to the student body, is that the Cambridge police stand ready to help them at all times. A few patrolmen, it is true, may enjoy baiting the students, but the majority of the force respect students as much as any other group of residents. Statements from Headquarters officials vouch for this attitude. The attitude at Headquarters is one of cooperation and assistance that should not be spurned by the University. If the prompt action taken...