Word: ended
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...last week's end German submarines had sunk some 175,000 tons of Allied and neutral shipping, plus a British airplane carrier. The carrier was a fine trophy, but the total haul of merchantmen, for the first full month of World War II, was skimpy compared to the big bags of 1917, when the Kaiser's U-boats were sinking five, six, seven, eight hundred thousand tons of shipping a month. Tactically and technologically, Germany's opponents today know much more about fighting submarines than they...
...angle reach the near ear a tiny fraction of a second sooner than the far ear-and the hearing mechanisms are so sensitive that they translate this minute time difference into a sense of direction. The simplest directional hydrophone is a rotatable bar with a receiver at each end, each receiver connected with one of the listener's ears. If a sound comes in at an angle, the slight time lag in the receivers causes the listener to hear it louder in one ear than in the other. He rotates the bar until the sound volume is equal...
...End of a Day (Louis Jouvet, Victor Francen, Madeleine Ozeray, Michel Simon; TIME, Sept...
...three coldly arresting facts. First: here is the final opportunity to call a stop before European civilization lurches to perdition. Second: there seem to be reasons for hoping that peace is not an impossibility at this juncture. Three: America's best chance for peace lies in an immediate end of the war. In the light of these facts, it is clear that the President is almost under an obligation to exert every office he possesses to bring about such a peace...
Here is a case of two warring powers, England and Germany, both painfully eager to end the fight after the first preliminary round. It would be the saddest event in all history if their peace hopes were frustrated merely because neither is in a position to make direct overtures. Obviously there must be a third power to bring them together, and just as obviously, the President of the United States is in the most logical position...