Word: wakely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Above all, Haile Selassie has created a general, warm and blind sympathy for uncivilized Ethiopia throughout civilized Christendom. In the wake of the world's grandiose Depression, with millions of white men uncertain as to the benefits of civilization, 1935 produced a peculiar Spirit of the Year in which it was felt to be a crying shame that the Machine Age seemed about to intrude upon Africa's last free, unscathed and simple people. They were ipso facto Noble Savages, and the noblest Ethiopian of them all naturally emerged as Man of the Year...
...these facts were added last week by Calvert-Maryland Distilling Co., which had dispatched one J. Gold to Franklin Field to count the empties after the crowd had gone. Of course J. Gold found more of his employer's bottles than any other brand. Other items in the wake of one of the best football seasons in the history of the sport...
...days later the Treasury announced that next week it would sell $900,000,000 of Government securities, and U. S. citizens digested the fact that on Dec. 16 they would wake to look upon the first $30,000,000,000 public debt in U. S. history...
...written on the books of any treasury. Conceivably the U. S. might have twice its present public debt and men might still believe its credit good. Conceivably U. S. citizens might go to bed tonight without alarm at the $29,600,000,000 debt of the U. S. and wake tomorrow morning without faith in U. S. credit, unwilling to lend their Government another dime. Faith cannot be weighed in any scales yet invented...
...Honolulu some of this cargo was distributed during the night's halt. More was added in the shape of mail, ice-cream, Thanksgiving dinners, odds & ends, and 14 Pan American employes to be carried to Midway and Wake. Off at dawn, the Clipper, loaded almost to capacity, flew on to Midway, landed within one minute of schedule in time for fishing, baseball in the afternoon. Next day, the ship lost a day by crossing the international date line to Wake for another night's layover before heading for Guam. Thus rested, the crew remained fresh as the long...