Word: ranging
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...boys into decency, but they took no chances. As the new principal they picked a gruff-voiced six-footer, Clarence Salter. To everybody's amazement, Oswego's rowdies, unchastened by Melvin Attig's breakdown, promptly started to haze Principal Salter. Two days after his arrival they rang a false alarm, brought fire engines shrieking to the school...
Times Square, Manhattan, rang with that chant one night last week, the night that bomb-pocked Barcelona was falling and U. S. warboats were speeding to evacuate U. S. citizens (see p. 14). Letters and telegrams poured in at the White House. Even North Dakota's Senator Gerald P. Nye, longtime champion of the Neutrality Act, came out for lifting the embargo on Loyalist Spain. Even the President's wife made a speech about Neutrality...
...Vive Daladier! Vive la France!" rang out with spontaneity in Corsica, Tunisia and Algiers last week as Premier Edouard Daladier toured France's Mediterranean and North African possessions. The Daladier visit was officially an inspection of French defenses. Actually it was France's firm reply to recent, inspired Italian clamor for Corsica and Tunisia. Last week's answer told Italy: "Just try to take them...
White's, Boodle's, Brooks's still exist; London's Athenaeum Club is 115 years old. Manhattan's Union Club is 103, its Union League 76. Last week, as bells rang in another year, another Manhattan club turned a corner, looked back sentimentally at its first half-century of life. Lest memory fail, it incorporated that half-century in book form...
While U. S. campuses rang with denunciations of Adolf Hitler, the Führer last week decorated five U. S. pedagogues with the Order of Merit of the German Eagle. The New York Times promptly wired the professors to find out if they would accept the awards. A reply came from Iowa-born Karl Frederick Geiser, a retired Oberlin College professor whose highest previous honor was a teaching fellowship in Germany during 1936-37. Author of a work called Democracy versus Autocracy (1918) and of a translation of Sombart's Deutscher Sozialismus (1937), Professor Geiser wanted to keep...