Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...allies lose-and the odds are against them-the whole of Europe, and China, will go to the Dictators, Canada will be under Hitler, and where will we be? For they will certainly want the vast and fertile lands of South America for "lebensraum...
...President's appointments to the War Resources Board roused a whole closetful of undefined, murmured fears among the New Dealers now running Washington. Chairman of the Board was Edward R. Stettinius Jr.-also chairman of U. S. Steel. Serving with him were no Laborites, no Little Businessmen, no Janizaries. Instead, there were such Big Businessmen as A. T. & T.'s Walter Gifford, General Motors' John Lee Pratt, Sears, Roebuck's General Robert E. Wood, Manhattan Banker John Milton Hancock. Here, to the shaken Janizariat, was sinister evidence that Franklin Roosevelt, in advance of war, had turned...
...areas of London, Glasgow, Leeds, Sheffield, Manchester to places of greater safety. For in a nation which, by the world's standards, already had top marks for humanitarianism, the war's first month produced an entire new order of social responsibility. The movement within a week of whole masses of people into thousands of other peoples' homes and schools and churches, Prime Minister Chamberlain described as "the greatest social experiment which England has ever undertaken." On the whole, it was Britain's 15,000,000 women who undertook...
Metropolitan homes were emptied of their children. On the whole, when mothers accompanied children to live with strange families in the countryside, the arrangement was carried out with good-natured tolerance by both families. Hut not always. In the excitement and instability of change, the visiting children broke things, fought with their young hosts, ran wild. In most homes the kitchen was the focus of friction, mothers clashing over meals and washing privileges. One distraught visitor took a knife to her hostess. Even when things ran smoothly, women longed to get back to their homes and husbands, if they were...
Contrary to usual practice, the band will perform both before the game, and during the whole period of the half, inasmuch as Bates is not bringing a band...