Word: true
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poland's Smigly-Rydz [Sept. 14, 1939-He ran true to form also...
...such a place is an action full of meaning for our time. . . . For generations past we have taught our children . . . that our institutions of representative government were dependent on our constitutional charter for their existence. We have more recently learned, and now believe, that the opposite is also true: that without the institutions of representative government the charters of the people's rights cannot be saved...
...That the goal of [British Foreign Secretary Viscount] Halifax and his helper, the British Warsaw Ambassador [Sir Howard] Kennard, consisted of keeping the Poles from entering into serious negotiations with Germans is fully and completely confirmed by the English Blue Book. It appears scarcely believable, but it is nevertheless true...
...rarely is Tabouis caught with a false prediction that she cannot balance with a true one. For she has no fear at all of contradicting herself, even in the same article, frequently prophesies happenings that are mutually exclusive. She has been spectacularly right & wrong simultaneously on everything that has occurred in Europe for a dozen years. On her own staff she wars perpetually with bearded, ancient Georges de la Fouchardiére, L'Oeuvre's political humorist. A witty contemporary once said that Fouchardiére "daily executes on page two the dangerous maniac who operates on page...
Radcliffe sentiment was proven to have shifted back this year to a true appreciation of Harvard men as "escorts," "lovers," and "paramours," when the results of a poll on the respective merits of the swains of the Big Three colleges and M.I.T. were released yesterday afternoon...