Word: pointing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Reader McArdle's letter about "Liberals" touches upon a sore point in word-usage What is a "liberal?" No simple definition can be very satisfactory...
...subcommittee last week nipped over sheet after sheet of the 66-page British plan, delegates from eight of the nations chimed "agreed, agreed" on virtually every point. Sole "No" thundered from Soviet Representative S. B. Kagan. "These new proposals," he scorned, "are only a feeble palliative. Counting of volunteers is no guarantee that they will be withdrawn...
...cede the area to Germany or to allow it to fall into Germany's hands would be virtual suicide for Czechoslovakia. At one point the Sudeten area reaches to within 20 miles of the nation's capital. Containing the extensive "Maginot" line of fortifications, constructed with French aid and almost as effective as France's Maginot line, loss of the region would lay Czechoslovakia wide open to military rape. Located within the Sudeten rim are most of Czechoslovakia's industries, of her coal and iron resources. The famed Skoda munitions plant at Pilsen, dangerously near...
...Navy's undefeated lacrosse team: its annual June week game with Army, 10-to-3; its eighth victory in a row this season; clinching its claim to the U. S. intercollegiate championship; before 3,000 spectators; in Michie Stadium, West Point...
...point of love, Commissioners Healy and Hoeflinger were mollified enough to join in a unanimous approval, though "feeling that some modification . . . would be desirable." Said Sculptor Milles: "A fountain should be a gay and happy thing. . . . They ask me why there are sharks in the fountain, when there are no sharks in the Mississippi and I reply that this is an important wedding and the guests have come from...