Word: wall
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...workers and peasants who achieved the great Socialist Revolution dreamed of creating an army which would stand like an impassable wall," explained Pravda. "The Red Army today is such a power that it not only is capable of defeating any invader but can destroy a hostile army on its own soil...
...glassing in the arches, the former cloister of the Germanic Museum was converted into a library last summer. A door was cut through the wall into the former curators' room, which is now used as an ante-chamber, and the reading room itself has been furnished in keeping with its mediseval setting. Seated at one of the large refectory tables, a full view of the garden is provided through the large arch windows...
...does the most famed member of the Cardinal's flock?Alfred Emanuel Smith, who was to speak on "Communism or Communionism" at the Cleveland Congress. Last week before departing on the Cardinal's special train, Al Smith publicly took a spray gun in hand, gave the grey stone wall of St. Patrick's Cathedral the first squirt of a chemical preparation which is to clean, harden and preserve...
...benefit of its busy readers the Wall Street Journal carries a daily table called ''World Wheat at a Glance." Listed in four columns are closing prices for the previous nine trading days on the four great primary wheat markets?Liverpool, Buenos Aires, Winnipeg and Chicago. Last week it took no more than a glance at that table to perceive that world wheat was in the midst of something far more significant than a speculative war jiggle...
...almost meaningless today. Its bond and paper business keeps it in constant touch with banks and institutions, and the Socony issue was placed last week without the aid of dealers or a banking group. Moreover when the partners assembled in their private paneled dining room at No. 60 Wall st. at 8 p. m., they had earned their full $200,000 commission in one day's work...