Word: stickful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Covenant to support military sanctions against a state declared an aggressor. European observers opined that delay in concluding the new agreement has been caused by Berlin efforts to edge Belgium away from the League. These failed because, as a price for the Anglo-French release, Belgium had promised to stick by her League commitments...
...That's my story and I'll stick to it, even though you probably don't believe me even...
...them stumped up at the Architectural School. They say that Gropius can't understand it. It's a notched hard wood stick, with a nail stuck in the end and on the nail a propellor. You hold the stick in either hand and with the other rub a second stick, any shape, across the notches...
...three acts of solid suspense, piffling but none the loss deadly, John Murray and Allen Boretz's "Room Service" surpasses the most lugubrious of tragedies. In fact, although it is farcical throughout and even borders on the slap-stick, it threatens more than once to drop off into sheer disaster. It has to do with the now familiar theme of putting on a show, but the hopelessness of the predicaments into which the youthful producer breezes is amazingly original. Those dilemmas are also uproarious, except that there is grave danger lest the sympathetic souls in the audience become too busy...
Already wounded by Japanese airmen and in the hospital at Shanghai was British Ambassador Knatchbull-Hugessen (TIME, Sept. 27), but British Charge d'Affaires R. G. Howe decided to stick at his post in Nanking. This left U. S. Ambassador Nelson T. Johnson, a longtime Far East veteran who has made tramps and treks in bandit-infested Provinces "just for fun," staring at the standing orders which the U. S. Embassy, Legation and Consulate has recently received under the New Deal. These orders force the ranking U. S. official on the spot to decide what in his judgment constitutes...