Word: ever
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...conclusions: the "peace for our time," which British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain believed he took home from Munich, was at best only an armistice; notwithstanding post-Munich pretenses, war has been postponed, not really averted, to a moment more unfavorable than ever for the democracies; if French and British diplomatic forces were not completely routed at Munich, they were certainly obliged hastily to retreat and sue for what President Roosevelt later called "peace by fear...
...This occurrence is certainly unique in several respects, as we believe it to be the first authentic case of a meteorite ever striking an automobile, or for that matter a vehicle of any kind; and the first where its end course could be accurately measured from three established points penetrated in its fall. We also believe Mrs. Crum came nearest to being actually hit by a meteorite of any person on record in this country...
...Chicago last week Drs. Francis Wood Godwin and Alfred Orpheus Walker showed pictures of a .22 calibre bullet in flight taken at speeds of about one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished. These photographs revealed the bullet "stopped" in its course, a clear-cut image with highlights gleaming on its surface; stopped again so close to a pane that its reflection could be dimly seen in the glass; passing through and emerging in a cloud of glass dust...
...timed approximately by noting the amount of blur (equal to the distance traveled during exposure) on the bullet. If the bullet travels at 1,000 ft. per sec. and the blur amounts to one-thousandth of a foot, the time interval is one-millionth of a second, fastest exposure ever accomplished...
...Kathryn Lewis, 27, daughter of John L. Lewis. Asked why she had quit Bryn Mawr to work for her father, she replied: "It wasn't so much a question of wanting to work with father, but of getting into the movement. . . . I've been arguing with him ever since I was two years...