Word: westing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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McKay doubted that this friendship was more than a marriage do convenance. If the two owers won the war together Russia would not relish a strong Germany on the west especially as the latter's claims to the Balkans and the Ukraine have never been repudiated...
...asked to imagine that Hitler will renounce those designs on Russia . . . simply because he has defeated his enemies in the west and is now in a position to deal with Russia alone?" The historian felt "It seems in the highest degree unlikely that the Russians will over permit a victory of the Germans...
Gardner reported that, of the seven institutions in China affiliated with the Harvard Yenching University in Peking, only one has remained within the zone now occupied by the Japanese. The bombing of some buildings of the West China Union University, also connected with the Yenching Institute, was an indication that even those colleges which are not within Japanese territory are facing danger...
...West Indian and South American animal life tends toward the quaint rather than the dangerous. The comical-looking tree porcupine, annoyed to find that he is standing on his tail, gravely tips himself over by pulling it out from underneath. Miniature anteaters cry when caught, curl up pathetically with face in paws, uncurl suddenly and nab your arm. Pea-size frogs croak like bullfrogs. One beetle is equipped with amber landing light. A bird sings sophisticated Gershwin melodies. Quanks, opossums, howler monkeys, capybara, sloths, tamarins, uropygi come in all sizes and shapes, display remarkably varied habits...
...year-old ex-waitress, who is facing deportation to the British West Indies, where she has a husband and a sixteen-year old daughter, is being held at the Immigration Office in East Boston pending her hearing before the Federal Board...