Word: throughout
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Looking elsewhere throughout the world, Comrade Molotov called President Roosevelt's recent note to Adolf Hitler asking for a ten-year peace a "proposal permeated with a peace-loving spirit." The recently signed German-Italian treaty he called an "offensive alliance." He warned Japan to stop "provocative violations of the frontiers of the U. S. S. R. and the Mongolian People's Republic" in the Far East. As for China, Russia would always support "nations which have become victims of aggression and are fighting for the independence of their countries...
Future English concentrators will find important fields tended by neophytes rather than by scholars who have already gained distinction. Aside from the injustice to students who, attracted by Harvard's name, have a right to some substance, one wonders what will happen to the relative ranking among English faculties throughout the land, of a department which loses four able men so soon after the departure of Lake, Lowes, Copeland, and Kittredge...
...Denmark have noted that the tall, spare Danes are growing "fat and short of breath." Last fortnight Dr. K. Ulrich of Copenhagen gave reporters a ready explanation for this phenomenon. Like most Europeans, he said, Danes were slow to install central heating systems, common in U. S. homes. Throughout the long, cold winters they shivered, exercised, ate heavily to generate their own body heat. But recently Denmark acquired hot-air furnaces and steam radiators. Result: the Danes, still eating heavily, lounge comfortably in their warm rooms, convert the excess food into fat instead of heat...
...Most dangerous of all occupations is farming, according to Dr. John Howard Powers of the Bassett Hospital. Highest number of occupational deaths throughout the U. S. occurs among agricultural workers. But what hurts the farmers most often is not a reaper or a pitchfork, but a reckless motorist hurtling through country lanes...
...downs and the sea moved in a light that somehow was more like silver than gold. But those rolling downs! Nowhere call there by another green quite like their shade in late May. A pastel tint, they lay, deepening the bollows to a hunter emerald. So she made garden throughout the morning, busy with tulip and dahlia tubers, hollybook plants to draw the bees, and the bitter tansy. The grocery boy came by with news of a herring run down at the Gut. He sniffed. "Seems like it's spring, I guess." "Ayea," game her noncommittal assent from, the kitchen...