Word: versa
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Well aware that in the past few years their independence largely depended on the Germans protecting them from the Russians, and vice versa, when the Soviet Union began to attack the Finns last week they took it calmly. President Kyosti Kallio proclaimed a "state of siege." Foreign Minister Erkko observed: "Once and for all, I wish to say in all solemnity that Finland has not wanted war, has no desire to be a threat to anyone and has no desire to become the instrument of a third power." Then they got on with...
...music. It isn't always easy, by the way, to find such men on short notice. Musicians, like bands, have their own style, and this is important in making up the personnel of the band. Sometimes one who plays well, doesn't fit in another capacity and vice versa; thus, all details must be carefully scrutinized...
...quite important that the arranger be thoroughly familiar with individual talent in the band in order to obtain aforementioned results. For example an arrangement for Cab Calloway might be of little value to Lombardo and vice versa...
...object, however, to TIME magazine's sentence, which the uninformed could read as implying a Bergen-McCarthy relationship between the News and Vandenberg, or, for that matter, vice versa. We are all fallible, but TIME magazine too often is both fallible and-well, call it carefree in its handling of facts...
...parties, Labor and Conservative, called a halt in politics, each party agreeing not to oppose the other in by-elections. If there were a Parliamentary vacancy of a seat formerly held by a Conservative, the Laborites agreed not to put up a candidate and vice versa. Last week, at a by-election in Glasgow, this idyllic state of affairs was impaired when Pacifist Andrew Stewart entered the race independently on a "Stop the War" platform against Laborite Arthur Woodburn, who supported the war. True to their pledge, the Conservatives did not put up a candidate. Result: Candidate Woodburn...