Word: bents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...genial, hospitable host, Strauss looks more like a conservative country squire than a world-renowned composer and conductor. Ruddy-complexioned, with clear, pale-blue childlike eyes, he carries his full six foot three with an easy natural dignity. Bent slightly with the weight of his 74 years, his tall figure is still spare and vigorous. There is no trace of pose or affectation about...
What rich, reticent, scientifically-bent Howard Hughes was thus modestly dismissing had been a flight so precisely steered that it extended only 20 miles more than the direct course planned around the top of the world, although almost every mile of it was flown by instruments, often against fiercely adverse weather conditions. Halved had been Lindbergh's 33½-hour time to Paris, halved the late great Wiley Post's solo dash around the world five years earlier...
...strong magnetic field maintained across the chamber. Its energy is 10,000,000 electron-volts. It passes through a copper cylinder (left centre) and emerges below, much weaker and making a broader line. Its energy is now only 210,000 volts and so its path is more sharply bent by the magnetic field. After traveling about an inch more (to the right) it comes to a dead stop...
...week poured into Prague's big, bustling Masaryk and Wilson (named after Woodrow Wilson) railway stations, stomped out to the mammoth Masaryk Stadium,* high above the silvery Vltava River and the cathedral towers of the capital. There, in white jerseys and blue trousers and skirts, they twisted and bent in mass exercise. Before the month is over, 160,000 members will have participated in such elaborate drills...
...clever, waspish, Jew-baiting Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels, who is also Nazi district leader for Greater Berlin, was attributed the latest outburst. Cafés, cinema houses were searched for Jews. Down the Grenadierstrasse and Dragonerstrasse-both prominent Jewish streets-ran several hundred "Aryans" bent on pulling Jews out of their stores, painting their shopwindows with insulting signs. Schoolteachers lectured children not to associate with little Jews. On countless shopwindows appeared such inscriptions as "Jewish swine," "Out with the Jews," "Avoid this Jew," "The Jew- Our Sorrow!" "Jew, get out!" Whole streets were roped off while Jewish blocks were...