Word: statements
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...statement concerning the most widely publicized Harvard athletic injury in history was made in answer to repeated inquiries as to the reason the Crimson leader was sidelined for such a long time. It concluded by saying "Macdonald now is in first class physical condition...
...back up his statement Chase referred to John Stetson Barry's "The History of Massachusetts--The Colonial Period," from which he selected the following extract...
There were no set speeches, no previously formulated accusations. Herr Hitler's first words about the Reichstag fire were stagy, forced, phony: "Das ist das Werk der Kommunisten." (This is the work of Communists.) This time his first statement was spontaneous, slangy, more relief than calculated vindictiveness: "Glück muss der Mensch haben." (A fellow has got to be lucky...
More rigorous than in Great Britain itself, Canadian censorship was comparable only to the strict wartime supervision of the press in France. Under its sweeping regulations the Minister of National Defense had power to take over all communications. Forbidden was any "adverse or unfavorable statement . . . likely to prejudice the defense of Canada" or prosecution of the war. Even weather reports were no longer published...
Many a sophisticated Manhattan housewife last week, tardily opening her October bills, blinked as she scanned her laundry statement. Instead of the familiar Croydon Trousseau Laundry, the billhead read: Shields-Wood Service. Proprietors: Francis X. Shields, Sidney B. Wood...