Word: thought
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Manchuria, the Shanghai warfare of 1932-he was Johnson on the Spot. He watched the Shanghai bombings from the roof of a cotton mill. He liked to call himself the Commuting Minister, and preferred the hinterland ton Westernized coastal cities; only went to Shanghai, he said, when he thought it was time to change his shirt. Almost everywhere he went, his favorite book, Alice in Wonderland, went with...
Until the artillery and the bombs proved he was not fooling, most foreign diplomats in Moscow thought that Joseph Stalin's last wish was an ever so tiny war. They believed until the last minute that Comrade Stalin was merely trying a "war of nerves" on the Finns. So sure was U.S. Ambassador to Russia Laurence A. Steinhardt that there would not be war that he was caught off-base in Sweden, rushed back by special plane to Moscow where he had plenty to do expressing the U. S. Government's ideas...
...Finns thought that by changing their Government thus they could persuade Dictator Stalin to call off his war they were mistaken. Scarcely had they relayed word through to Moscow that a new Government was ready to deal with the Kremlin than out of the clear blue appeared a brand new, ready-made Finnish "People's Government" with a resounding program and declaration...
...Russian (recently Polish) frontier. Red Army soldiers, it was reported, fired on Hungarian sentries. More important, Hungarian military authorities seized large batches of Communist propaganda pamphlets shipped into eastern Carpatho-Ukraine, the mountainous district which Hungary grabbed from dying Czecho-Slovakia last March and which the Nazis once thought of using for a jump-off into the Russian Ukraine. All this indicated that when Comrade Stalin finished with the "northern cousins" he may very well turn toward the Finns' southern relatives and put in a small claim...
...deny that Varsity swimming workouts are thought. After two months of ache-producing exercises, the Ulenmen enter, the pool officially, and from 3 o'clock to 4:30 daily, exclusive of morning workouts, the boys wave their arms at the bottom of the bath. A typical session might consist of the following: to being with, a little kicking with the board to limber up the calf and thigh muscles; then, Coach Ulen will inform you to "swim ten laps at three-quarter speed." That usually means 250 yards about us fast as you can go, because five other follows...