Word: drafts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Then the President proceeded to draft his second appeal to Adolf Hitler, urging not only continued negotiation of the German-Czech issues but also a broad discussion, among all the powers directly interested, of questions correlated with those issues. Said President to Fuhrer: "Hundreds of millions throughout the world would recognize your action as an outstanding historic service to all humanity...
...Christ. Upon his death, his executors discovered no less than 3,000,000 words of manuscript, revisions and notes, based upon five trips he made to Palestine, 1,000 volumes of source materials he had read during 39 years. Hall Caine's Life of Christ in its final draft (650,000 words, 1,310 pages) was published this week.* Hall Caine was not much impressed by gospel accounts of the Virgin Birth, by some of Christ's miracles, nor by all the recorded circumstances of the Resurrection. Some of his observations sound as though written from a British...
...parked automobile. The occupants of neither house nor car were injured, but Major General Westover died with his crew chief. Technical Sergeant Samuel Hymes. Ordered to inquire into causes was Major Joseph L. Stromme, who guessed that Pilot Westover had flown too slowly, got caught in a downward thermal draft...
...many people know, a wet bulb thermometer is a thermometer whose bulb is surrounded by a knitted cotton tube, with its end dipped in water which keeps the bulb moist. In a draft (about three feet per second or over) evaporation reduces the temperature, and from the amount of such reduction and the reading of the dry bulb thermometer the humidity is computed...
...perspiring human on a hot day approximates quite closely the condition of the wet bulb. He finds a draft, if possible, and if the day be humid he gets little relief from the draft, and suffers accordingly...