Word: worsteds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...quitting not only to return to "business connections that I regularly carry," but also to be free as a private citizen to answer any call to appear at the Finance Committee's NRA inquiry. These motives of Cigaret Maker Williams, Cigar Unionist Ornburn picked up and made the worst...
Germany's worst enemies could ask no more than that Captain Anthony Eden, who prefers to be called Mr. Eden, should detach Poles from their ten-year pact with Germany (TIME, Feb. 18 ), or give aid and comfort to Nazidom's avowed and bitter foe, the Soviet Union...
...side idolatry, she seems more awed by the grandeur of the Miltonic tradition, approaches his fame with an informed but sight-seeing mind. She does not share Belloc's sturdy contempt for Milton's rodomontadinous prose, sees in some of it "Milton at his extraordinary best and worst, splendid, exasperating, scurrilous, moving, repulsive, and grandiose by turns...
...rnberg] illustrates the best and the worst features of Nazi local government. Nowhere else has the winter relief campaign been carried on with livelier zeal. The poor are well taken care of, order has replaced former disorder, and the restoration of historic buildings and civil beautification are proceeding on all sides. Unemployment has been reduced from 70,000 to 25,000 in two years, notwithstanding that the chief manufactures-toys, lead pencils, brushes and Diesel engines- largely depend on an export market that is now near the vanishing point...
...sure, three British cruisers and four destroyers were promptly sent to the British island of Cyprus. Greeks in Greece, who know that their deposed King George II is a close friend of King-Emperor George V and a frequent guest at Buckingham Palace and Windsor Castle, suspected the worst...