Word: breathed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week the Woodhead Commission issued its conclusions. A Babel of contradictions and reservations, this report submitted two new partition schemes and in the same breath admitted it was impossible to divide the country into satisfactory economic, political, racial units. His Majesty's Government there on abandoned partition as "impracticable," announced it would try another timehonored, time-stalling method used successfully when Indian nationalism flared up. The Cabinet decided to call in London a round-table conference of Jews and Arabs and urge the two factions to compose their differences under the benevolent, watchful eye of the Mandatory.* Should...
About 130 feet in, the ceiling dipped into the water, forming what speleologists call a "siphon." Unwilling to stop, Casteret inhaled enough breath for two minutes, dived into the tunnel, ready to turn back after one minute if he did not reach the siphon's end. It was short, however, and he soon emerged into another grotto. This was the beginning of explorations in the Grotte de Montespan which eventually led to the discovery of subterranean galleries inhabited by the Magdalenian cave dwellers of 20,000 years ago. Some of the Magdalenian clay images of animals were riddled with...
When James J. Walker was New York City's mayor, he brought to the City Hall the ingratiating glibness of a slightly superannuated musical-comedy juvenile. In the year 1932 he felt the hot breath of investigation on his neck, stepped nimbly out of office. Since then he has never had a suitable stage...
...often remarked that too much has to be covered in a short time to allow anything but a summary of the field. Actually the reverse is true. Because so much is covered, writing a paper on a detailed subject is the only way a student can take a deep breath in the field and discover its true nature. History 1 and Physics B apply this principle with great success, and other elementary courses like Economics A and Biology D would do well to follow suit...
...form in which they are put. If I am asked 'Does any gas mask give complete protection against phosgene?' the only literally true answer is 'No'. . . . But one would be safe in a phosgene concentration of one part per thousand, of which a single breath would probably kill an unprotected man. Hence in practice such a mask is a very nearly complete protection. It is the same with shelters. ... A single four-ton bomb . . . aimed exactly right . . . would no doubt destroy a shelter which was safe against bombs weighing one ton. Nevertheless, I shall call...