Word: turning
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dean, whose baseball career appeared deemed last summer by a shoulder ailment, was elated by the turn of events. He breathed new confidence when doctors told his new X-Ray examinations showed that the muscle tear was healing "very satisfactorily" and that with at least six weeks more rest he should be able to take his regular turn when the season starts...
...dream nor a fable, nor a trick turn of fate...
Knowing well that he would be roasted to a turn in the Senate for his tax-spend-elect slogan, but expecting to be confirmed eventually by about a 2-to-1 vote, Mr. Hopkins dived at his new job with all speed. He announced he would retain "Uncle Dan" Roper's impressive Business Advisory Council, most of whose many members are "close personal friends." He asked his specially close friend, W. Averell Harriman, board chairman of the Union Pacific Railroad Co. and also of the Advisory Council, to come to Washington as soon as convenient. He hired able Political...
...weight of the 1929-34 depression in which German unemployment soared to 7,000,000 above a nationwide wind drift of bankruptcies and failures. Called to power as Chancellor of the Third Reich on January 30, 1933 by aged, senile President Paul von Hindenburg, Chancellor Hitler began to turn the Reich inside out. Unemployment was solved by: 1) a far-reaching program of public works; 2) an intense rearmament program, including a huge standing army; 3) enforced labor in the service of the State (the German Labor Corps); 4) putting political enemies and Jewish, Communist and Socialist jobholders in concentration...
...Turn round and round