Word: air
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nevertheless, many were the indications that, regardless of how skillfully the Government had handled the matter in Parliament, the Chamberlain Cabinet had not heard the last of the "air-raids precautions scandal." Thousands received gas masks of the wrong size. There were grave doubts whether they would be effective against even mustard gas. Most of the trenches were pathetically shallow and inadequate. There was profiteering in sandbags and shovels...
...system of bilateral peace pacts by which each of the Big Four countries would promise the three others not to go to war with them for ten or possibly 25 years; 2) a treaty making the present strengths of the German Air Force, the French Navy and the French Army "ceilings" above which none of the Big Four would raise the strength of its corresponding forces; 3) division of economic spheres of influence by the Big Four, and some ceding to Germany of colonial territory; 4) agreement by the Big Four to renounce and force other States to renounce...
...germ plasm) prevents their soft, prenatal cartilage from developing into a normal skeleton. The young appear normal for two weeks, then become bandy-legged as if suffering from rickets. Usually they die at the age of four to five weeks, with soft, collapsed ribs and emphysema of the lungs (air leakage into the spaces of the connective tissue...
...current issue of Columbia's Independent Journal, "it will be necessary to establish a central haven for the threatened stocks of scientifically useful animals and plants from all nations. Perhaps it should be as far as possible from a seacoast and remote from the danger of air attacks. Perhaps it should be near that hole in the ground in Kentucky where we keep our spare gold...
Only one living artist has deliberately matched his art against the superhuman mayhem of air bombing. Picasso did it for the Spanish Government building at last year's Paris Exposition with a 22-ft. by 10-ft. mural, Guernica, which nobody enjoyed and nobody forgot. Last month this painting and 67 auxiliary sketches were exhibited at London's New Burlington Galleries, quickly became the sensation of the opening season...