Word: western
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Crop damage, mainly the uprooting of dry young wheat in western Oklahoma and the Texas Panhandle, was estimated...
...Locarno Pact, which he held in such high respect, stipulated that Germany would arbitrate or conciliate any border disputes in Western Europe. After a plebiscite, Herr Hitler revised the borders of Germany to include the Saar Basin (see map)-area: 738 square miles; population: 812,000; resources: coal, iron, steel, heavy industries...
Swift Hungarian columns darted northward over snow-choked roads through the western mountain passes of Carpatho-Ukraine as soon as Hungary learned that the lid was off. Late the second day of the occupation, one frostbitten contingent reached the Polish border, where a Polish colonel ecstatically kissed the Hungarian commander while their troops embraced (see cut). Polish frontier guards welcomed the Hungarian soldiers as brothers and thawed them out in a guard station...
...Discussions were described as "progressing amicably," which probably meant that Rumania would be as tractable as she thought necessary, would stanchly refuse to give in if backed by Britain and France. Meanwhile, just in case of trouble, King Carol ordered some 500,000 soldiers to man Rumania's western frontiers...
However, as 95 per cent of the money used for financing University athletics comes from gate receipts, either some generous endowment must be forthcoming or else burly Western gladiators must be imported to make up a super-football machine, if the much-needed structure is to become more than a mere pipe dream. Until such time, the College can well adopt a temporary stop-gap measure in converting the unfinished top floor of Dillon Field House into two or three bunk rooms so as to take care of at least a few of the visiting aggregations. To do this would...