Word: ways
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Italy's expulsions of Jews (see p. 30) represented Il Duce's idea of "the cheapest way" to keep his relations with Der Führer close & friendly while at the same time the Premier made clear that last week he was neither backing nor encouraging a German move into Czechoslovakia-quite the reverse. Less interested in downing Jews than in upping Italians, Benito Mussolini has long pursued a campaign to make his countrymen proud of their race, turn Italians with an inferiority complex into "Romans." The Moscow News's cartoonist observed in this move definite signs...
...demonstration of 110,000 political leaders and all-day war games would wear down the grass of the Zeppelin Meadow. Hitler writes but a henchman reads the Fuhrer's annual opening Proclamation at Nürnberg. Millions of Europeans hoped he would end the suspense over Czechoslovakia one way or the other by revealing his intentions in this proclamation. But Der Fuhrer had a whole week of speech-making to his Nazis before him. and the Proclamation only heightened the world's suspense by saying, with reference to Germany's self-sufficiency, "the idea of a blockade...
Franklin Roosevelt and Lazaro Cardenas are "two great statesmen who have appeared to extend a hand to labor," keynoted John L. Lewis at the opening session in Mexico City this week of the Latin American Labor Congress. "Mexico today is going forward in the same way as the United States because it has a great leader who believes in the rights and welfare of the common people...
...Stephen Foster, U. S. composer of the song Way Down upon the Swanee River (properly called Old Folks at Home), had never seen Florida's Suwannee River about which his song was written, got the misspelled name from an old map. Once the song was written it was impossible to correct the spelling, because the tune calls for a word of two syllables, and the real Suwannee has three...
Before their hands ever manage a steering wheel, many New York school children will know that acceleration, not braking, is the way to control skidding; that the best way to start on an icy surface is in high, not low gear. They will know the dangerous effect of automobile radios, "tunnel vision" (inability to see out of the corner of the eye), and thinking about quarrels with one's wife (perseveration). As pedestrians they will be taught to cross at crossings, hold umbrellas high, walk to the left on rural highways and at night to carry a light...