Word: referring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...constructive side, it was reported from Berlin that Führer Hitler had agreed to delete from Mein Kampf certain uncomplimentary references in which France was described as a "bastardized, negroid" country, an "eternal danger to the white race of Europe." an "enemy-to-the-death of the German people." There were also suggestions that France in turn might tone down the inscriptions on some World War monuments which bitterly refer to the "ravages of Huns...
...referending California voters turned down last month. Because war in Spain has curtailed output from the biggest sources of quicksilver. New Idria's business has picked up lately. The mine produces one-third of the U. S. supply, the U. S. 15% of the world supply. Californians sometimes refer to Herbert Hoover as the owner, but he said in Manhattan last week that he holds 3% of the stock, has nothing to do with management or labor policy. If he did have, he said, the miners could join a union if they wished...
...ruining an enemy's merchant marine is considered by TIME as of no military importance, I merely refer you to the prosecution of any war. . . . Most thinking critics believe the Captain's mistake was in fighting any men-of-war at all, since his value as a commerce destroyer was so great to his government...
...years. Yet most students are prone to procrastinate on such matters unless impelled by objective and sympathetic advice such as the Placement Office can give them. In a general way the Office can guide the student in an analysis of his interests and his qualifications. More specifically it can refer him to sources of information which will give him a more definite knowledge of the facts of various occupations and jobs...
...sins, others are allowed, like Karl Hofer, to paint as they please but not to exhibit in Germany. Being a work of art, Hofer's close-knit painting of two defenseless figures in an arbitrary swirl of blue drapery had more than one meaning, but it might certainly refer to the ill wind faced by German artists...