Word: land
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that the expulsion was proposed and engineered primarily by those Latin American, Catholic nations to which everything that the Soviet Union stands for has long been anathema. World-wide sympathy for Finland was important, but not more so than the deep-seated hatred harbored by capitalist countries for the land of Communism. Moreover, with Germany, Italy and Japan out, the League has become more & more a unilateral organization headed by France and Britain and composed of neutrals dependent upon British and French good will. A many-sided League never did agree on any forceful action: a one-sided League last...
Late one afternoon a squadron of British bombers left their North Sea bases and flew toward the German coast. Near Helgo land Bight they sighted, through a thin mist, a German battleship, a cruiser, sev eral destroyers, a submarine. The sub marine opened fire, then submerged. A few minutes later a squadron of Messerschmitt pursuit ships came up. For an exciting half-hour the British were under fire by turns from above and below...
...land, no trust-busting Federal attorney, can interfere when Nature conspires in restraint of trade. In Kansas, No. 1 winter wheat State, the past three months' (September, October, November) "normal" rainfall expectation was 6.09 inches of rainfall; this year, actual rainfall was 1.75 inches. Nebraska, which expects 4.53 inches, got 1.15; Iowa, expecting 7.81 inches, got 2.82. Total U. S. water shortage reached 400,000,000,000 tons, left several States with their next-to-record drought, left Wisconsin with its smallest rainfall on record...
...Fill our land with peace and bliss
...Stillness of the Night). Then the family hastens to table and partakes of the great Christmas wafer, symbol of brotherly love and forgiveness. Another kolenda, Bracia, Patrzcie Jeno (Brothers, Look Ahead), asks a blessing on this rite (and on a plow concealed under the table, so that the land, too, may be blessed). At pasterka, or midnight mass, the swelling Gdy się Chrystus Rodzi (When Christ the Lord is Born) is sung, and the carolers take to the streets, rollicking the happy My tez Pastuszkowie (We Also Shepherds...