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...reason to believe that Herr Hitler himself was disagreeably and literally astonished at the reaction in Britain and the world generally, which was provoked by the occupation of Prague and his breach of faith with Mr. Chamberlain. But while he may have realised his tactical mistake, it did not deter him from prosecuting his further designs...
TenBroek was blinded at the are of 7 when an arrow shot by a playmate penetrated his eye. The accident did not deter him from a scholastic and legal career in which he has won high honors...
Settlement of the TVA dispute three weeks ago on close to Wendell Willkie's terms was clear enough evidence of the New Deal's intent to break the utility log jam. Besides that, Treasury experts have already drafted 85 proposed revisions of taxes which now deter business; Franklin Roosevelt himself last week plumped for A. F. of L. -C. I. 0. peace and proposals by the nation's stock exchanges to reshape the Securities acts in order to revive the dormant capital market have actually been "welcomed...
...there was a fire in the basement of the City Hall, and soon shrieks of sirens and the roar of motors poured in the windows which had been opened to let the smoke pour out. This did not, however, deter the clerk from reading some matter-of-form letters. And curiosity, perhaps, but no surprise, moved many naive listeners when the President mumbled "The place is on fire" after each letter. As the fire sub-sided, though, they found he was saying "Placed on Fire...
...Harvard's ex-president (1909-1933), has spent a long and active life disproving the axiom that a burned child dreads the fire. The scalding he got when he protested Louis D. Brandeis' appointment to the U. S. Supreme Court for "lack of judicial temperament" did not deter him from getting himself into hot water again by proposing a quota for Jewish students at Harvard and barring Negroes from freshmen dormitories. He went on to become embroiled in the Sacco-Vanzetti case as the target of libertarians' scorn. Last year, when he demanded that the Government suppress...