Word: doubtful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plus t over m equals Humorture. Maybe the experts can work out a better equation but I doubt they'll improve on the word...
...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 a shelter bombproof if it will stand up to a one-ton bomb. ... A one-ton [gas] bomb will poison 120 million cubic feet of air, for example a layer [of air] twelve feet high...
...Were King (Paramount). To a guileless cinemaddict the task of making Frangois Villon dull and respectable might appear Herculean. In If I Were King, Director Frank Lloyd and Writer Preston Sturges, no doubt aided by the Hays censorship, perform it in their stride. Since there is nothing spectacularly bad about If I Were King, it will doubtless appear on every list of worthwhile films compiled by every self-appointed reviewing board in the U. S. But its makers have found not one fresh point of view, have included every available cliche of sword-&-cloak romance, plus the clich...
Science for the Citizen was published four months ago in England where it was a non-fiction bestseller. No doubt sales in the U. S. will be equally large. The book is a remarkably learned compendium of scientific information, and when Professor Hogben wanders into little essays on the historical and present interrelations of science and society he does so with lucidity. But it is unlikely that everyone who buys Science for the Citizen will read it through. For Professor Hogben has obviously overestimated the stamina of the lay reader, even of intelligent, fairly well educated...
...From the number of times he used the word "moral", at a rough guess forty times, it is clear that morals are being safeguarded by Mr. Hoover and the Republican party while the Democrats are allowing them to rust. But paragraphs such as the following tend to make one doubt his close application to the study of morals as a science and suspect that there may be willy-nilly a touch of politics in his utterance: "The progress of mankind is in proportion to the advancement of truth and justice. These standards are fundamentally what we call morals...