Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cheap brandy and new cider. French Premier Edouard Daladier was supposed by the jubilant Germans to have secured the "Armistice," and in Berlin's huckster-jammed Wittenberg Platz a tipsy citizen, balancing on a chair with glass in hand, bellowed a toast: "Daladier is smarter than we thought...
...however. French Communist Secretary General Maurice Thorez, sent to the front with an engineer regiment, got a 24-hour furlough, took French leave and made a separate peace. Colorful Andre Marty, who once led a French Navy mutiny in the Black Sea and fought with the Spanish Loyalists, was thought to have disappeared to Russia. Deputy Jacques Duclos, an experienced fugitive from justice, could not be found. Also under indictment was onetime Air Minister Marcel Déat, dissident Socialist and prominent French defeatist who last summer wrote a tract called Die for Danzig? This time he was accused...
...History I instructors point out that the notes are vulnerable "on purely intellectual grounds." The staff describes the use of notes as "mere memorization of material" which produces no original thought and seriously affects the grades of their users...
...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 and animosities. Many a mother's son closed his eyes in agony, consoled only by the thought that he gave his young life in "the War to end Wars." Thomas Dorgan
Regular reading tests are given periodically to check on the progress of the class. The number of words read per minute is computed and graphed for each student as well as the daily average for the class. Selections of increasing difficulty of thought are offered the student to teach him to grasp the main idea and central thought of any passage...