Word: towards
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five minutes before noon on the fatal day, with German troops actually in motion toward the Czech border which they were to cross at 2 p.m., Il Duce in Rome rang up Chancellor Hitler at Berlin and they talked for 45 minutes. The Führer had received that morning a second appeal for peace from President Roosevelt, an appeal to which the only reply was an anti-Roosevelt tirade delivered that same evening to an audience of 175,000 Germans by No. 3 Nazi Goebbels. The results of the Mussolini-Hitler conversation were flashed to London where they brought...
...Europe gone on toward a balance of power alignment, with Britain and France on one side and Germany and Italy on the other, the picture would have become dismally like that of Europe before the World War. If, on the other hand, these four powers can agree, they can run Europe. No country in the Old World can start and fight a war to which all of the signatories of the Four Power Treaty are really opposed...
Such a demonstration should do a great deal toward building up the spirit that seemed so definitely lacking in the stands last Saturday. Is there an honorary society or similar organization which is able and willing to get to work on this project? --The Cornell...
Green, Daughters, Booth, and Glueck turned in good, but not their best games. Toward the end of the game, when Harvard, too late, became thoroughly air-minded, the ends had terrific jobs in breaking away from the line of scrimmage, but there was nothing illegal about the Brown manner of delaying the flankmen...
...been solved except through compromise. Moreover, only through general education can any solution be feasible, for the most perfect theoretical plan can be wrecked on the rocks of public indifference. It is safe to predict that the efforts of the committee, even if not wholly successful, will go far toward solving what they rightfully regard as "one of the major perplexities of our civilization...