Word: thirdly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...collect masses of figures-as they did-to document the standards of living at different income levels. Politicians might argue over the highest standard possible for the U. S., humanitarians might concentrate on the needs at the lowest income level, even Hollywood might try dramatizing the plight of one third of a nation. But the essential U. S. standard, as the yardstick by which it measured its prosperity, did not shrink in ten years of depression. Advertisements in U. S. magazines and newspapers showed that citizens wanted the same things. No orators plumped for lowering the standard to conform...
...went back to 1598 and quoted a diplomatic report of one Sir George Carew: "The outstanding features of Polish character were cruelty and lack of moral restraint." When modern Poland, "although not menaced at all," received the Allies' guarantees, the "shameless insults" which she heaped on the Third Reich at last became unbearable. Hence Sept...
...Third International. Soviet organs raked the French Cabinet savagely for its suppression of the French Communist Party, and at Moscow last week the long somnolent Third International, whose business is to foment "the World Revolution of the World Proletariat," was again heard from in a broadside by V. Florin. He appealed to "workers of the World" to "fight against capitalistic warmongers...
...known that Führer Hitler's camp was opposite his own and that he was a "sworn enemy of brute force." The Viceroy invited him back again, and then again, until last week His Excellency and the Mahatma saw each other for the third time in less than a month. Meanwhile, Lord Linlithgow busied himself with talks with other Indian leaders-princes, Moslems, Hindus, Sikhs...
After 38 hours in the water five men clinging to the jury raft had to be dragged aboard the dinghy. On the third night of drifting without food or water, they sighted a ship. The first mate took out his bosun's whistle and "blew and blew and blew for some twenty minutes. It was that tiny whistle that made the Italian rescue ship [Provvidenza] change her course and head for us. They let down a rope ladder, but we all had to be helped to be dragged up. Whiskey and wine were given to the men. Auntie...