Word: mouth
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...went many times in the footsteps if not in the mood of Walter Page to the red-draped oak-and-leather office in Downing Street. There he saw a man like him only in that both are deeply religious, an extremely tall, gaunt, bony-faced man, with a sensitive mouth and a talent for gentleness, the Rt. Hon. Edward Frederick Lindley Wood, 3rd Viscount Halifax. The end came on Sunday morning, September 3 when Kennedy sent a triple priority cable to Secretary Hull reporting that the British had moved up their ultimatum deadline to Hitler one hour. There would...
...areas of France and England were evacuated before war was declared. Through last week, no such note was heard except for a non-bombing visit toward Paris by a few Nazi reconnaissance ships, who retreated as soon as spotted, and a jittery performance near Britain's big Thames-mouth base at Chatham...
...across The Netherlands, safe from anti-aircraft fire above a thick overcast. From their course, air-wise Dutchmen (who protested this violation of their neutrality) concluded they were headed for three Nazi naval bases (Wilhelmshaven, Cuxhaven, Brunsbüttel), clustered in a 50-mile circle around the North Sea mouth of the Kiel Canal. They were right...
...Rome was the occasion for a realistic suggestion from Tokyo: Japan, Italy, Britain and France ought to repay the bad faith of their erstwhile friends, Germany and Russia, by banding together to end the Hitler-Stalin plot for "Bolshevization of the world." These wooden words were put in the mouth of poor old Puppet-elect Wang Ching-wei, the Chinese ventriloquist for Japanese policy...
...students-their home life, incomes, diversions, problems, hopes. But Dr. MacLean soon decided that knowing his students' present status was not enough; he had to know their future problems. To find out what they would need to know after college, he went to the horse's mouth, asked college men and women who were out in the workaday world. To 1,600 Minnesota alumni and alumnae he sent a 52-page, illustrated questionnaire entitled "Building the University of Tomorrow." It asked them what kind of jobs they had, how much they made, what they thought of their bosses...