Word: winter
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Causes of present diplomatic crises in Europe will be studied in one of the thirty afternoon and evening courses of college grade offered this fall and winter for Greater Boston adults by the Massachusetts Commission on Extension Courses in Wadsworth House...
This seemed to mean that Germany will attack Czechoslovakia if she should mobilize, and Herr Hitler next plunged into telling Germans how "278,000 men are now working to fortify our western frontier which will be ready before winter!" Having thus suggested that Germany is not yet quite ready to fight, Der Führer swung into a threatening conclusion in which he vented his rage at President Benes' offer of 700,000,000 koruny as a pacifier to the Sudeten Germans...
...previous cinema roles have differed only in the hairline shadings of her skating routines, with a new medium of self-expression: clothes. Functioning as an employe of a Manhattan department store, she is sent to Plymouth University on a semiprofessional basis as a mannequin to promote the sales of winter sportswear. This device supplies most of the story motivation in My Lucky Star, since the Henie wardrobe arouses the jealousy of her less fortunate classmates. It also permits Miss Henie to model a collection of cold-weather creations which female cinemaddicts are likely to find even more eye-worthy than...
Just in time for public consumption over the long Labor Day weekend, President Roosevelt last week released the report of his Commission on Industrial Relations in Great Britain, basic document for next winter's Congressional debates on altering the National Labor Relations Act. It is a cogent, dispassionate, impartial treatise, the product of nine good minds working in politely self-critical harmony.- Its findings were purely factual. It contained no shadow of moralizing for the benefit of U. S. employers, employes or politicians...
...shows that more conceptions occurred in April, the first month of spring, and December, the Eskimos' visiting season, than in any other months. His conclusions: 1) whatever sexual debility may have been observed by early explorers is probably due to famine during the lone, cruel winter, rather than lack of light: 2) "it seems unwise to consider the possibility of the existence of definitely limited seasons of reproduction in other human groups . . . [since] much of the published material available is based on inadequate data...