Word: ful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Schemer von Papen was more success ful in putting the skids under the German Republic. One of the last of the Republic's Chancellors, he wanted to get back into the driver's seat. With Junker sup port, he helped persuade President Paul von Hindenburg to appoint Adolf Hitler Chancellor, believing naively that the Fiihrer would become a figurehead and that he, von Papen, as Vice Chancellor would be the real power in a "Barons' Cabinet." Only hitch came when the Nazis, once in power, took the bit in their teeth and ignored Driver von Papen...
...lexicon of radio broadcasting controversy means trouble. A radio station's stock method of handling contro versial matters is to give each side an equal broadcasting chance, disclaiming any responsibility for what either side says. Pain ful thorn in the radio industry's side has long been Michigan's broadcasting priest, the Rev. Charles E. Coughlin, whose political preachments are pugnaciously controversial, make many enemies...
...every Jew killed two Arabs met death. That young Palestinian Jews might one day decide to fight Arab terrorism with Jewish terrorism had long been feared by leading Zionists. Jews and the governing British alike believed last week that loose in Palestine was a band of young, venge ful Jews, popularly known as Revisionists, who were out to slit Arab throats in reprisal for the 20-year-old Arab hostility to the Jews making the predominantly Arabian Palestine their "homeland." For firing on an Arab bus last spring, a young Revisionist was hanged last month at Acre, calling...
...Cathedral or any of the university buildings. To do this for a distinguished stranger is the highest honor the university can pay. Thus to honor Generalissimo Francisco Franco, undergraduates last year scraped clear many generations of inscriptions by the Cathedral door, then used almost a whole bull-ful of blood to write his name in a panel twelve feet high...
...single-decked suspension with two piers, the bridge has a total length of 9,266 ft. The main span is 4,200 ft. long, 700 ft. more than George Washing ton Bridge's centre span. The two grace ful towers are 746 ft. high, the clearance of the six-lane roadway and two passenger walks over the water, 220 ft. More intriguing than all these statistics are the allowances for the great stresses which the bridge may meet. In case a hurricane sweeps in from the sea, it can swing 21 ft. out of line without harm. When...