Word: unless
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...suppose the Allies begin to fall back, come what may. Theirs is now a cheerless outlook, unless M. Gamelin is as canny a magician as British propagandists would have us believe. Then Americans wishing to remain neutral must retreat to a second line: they must make a new resolve to stay out of this war at any price--Allies win or lose. They must maintain this resolve above the partners, hatred and sympathy. Successful in this they are successful in their...
...weeks ago the University instructed all such Fellows who had not left for Europe "to cancel their passages for Europe unless in exceptional cases there appear to be assurances that the objects of their study abroad can be fulfilled...
...Rains Came (20th Century-Fox) suggests that, unless Producer Darryl Francis Zanuck abates his enthusiasm for bigger & better cinema catastrophes, the upshot may well have to be an autobiography culminating in the destruction by brimstone of the 20th Century-Fox studios. Life in the native Indian state of Ranchipur is going on placidly until the rains come. Then a San Francisco earthquake breaks the dam at the most inopportune moment, inundating Ranchipur in a flood more terrible, if less widespread, than that of The Green Pastures. A plague of Yellow Jack virulence breaks out, inducing the Ranchipur authorities to start...
...editorials the Daily News was saying: "We must keep as cool as we can unless we want to get into this war." As usual, most intemperate of all the Press's many voices were the cartoonists, who emitted characteristically simplified cries of horror, scorn and indignation...
...grocer sold himself out of sugar, first on the hoarders' lists, before the buying rush had got well under way, then found that his wholesaler was unable to deliver more until refineries produced it. Others limited customers to small orders and a few refused to sell any unless it went along with a big food order. From every big city between New York and San Francisco went up the cry, "Stop the profiteers!" Said one Washington (D. C.) wholesaler, "The people are behaving like a bunch of damned fools...