Word: vies
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Maamme! Maamme! Our Fatherland! Oh, sacred word sound high! As on our fathers' soil we stand, No hill nor vale, nor sunny strand, Nor fertile plain 'neath southern sky Can with our bleak North vie...
BEHIND MOROCCAN WALLS-Henriette Celarie; translated & adapted by Constance Lily Morris-Macmillan ($5). Mme Celarie, wife of a French officer in Morocco, whiled away long garrison days by finding out what she could about Moroccan women. From the two books which she wrote (Amours Morocaines, La Vie Mysterieuse des Harems) Translator Constance Lily Morris, herself a sojourner in Morocco, has culled this collection of true stories and sketches. Macmillan has printed it in a big folio; Artist Boris Artzybasheff has illustrated it in sumptuous black & white...
...Government's methods of financing itself. The Federal Treasury is the country's most prodigal borrower. It operates in the red as a matter of principle. Its preoccupation is keeping one short jump ahead of its creditors. Yet its credit is the highest in the world; financiers vie to lend it money; its profits (surplus) cause the nation to rejoice...
...Pescosolido '34 is expected to take first place in the 70-yard dash and to vie with J. J. Healy '34 for honors in the shot put. Acting track captain J. J. Hayes '34 is favored to win one or both hurdle races and to give his teammate a close race in the dash. The Freshman 300-yard trio of J. C. Brown '34, W. L. Hasler '34, and J. M. Morse '34 is conceded a good chance to take their event, while F. M. Kirkland '34 J. E. Rogerson '34, and J. B. White '34 are strong...
...vote for Carl Gustaf Ekman and his People's Party. He used to be the village blacksmith of Munktorp in drowsy Vastmanland. As he shod horses he talked Temperance. After a while he began to write with devout Lutheran fervor against what Englishmen call brandy, Frenchmen eau-de-vie, Swedes Aquavit. Five years before the War, Munktorp's literary blacksmith took the road to greatness, accepted a call to Eskilstuna, where the owner of the Eskilstunakurirers made him Editor...