Word: favorable
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only public opinion in favor of war will take us in. The bankers, the dealers in death are secondary. Even the incidents on the high seas and the insults to national honor are secondary. Furthermore, these factors will be under more effective controls than they were in 1917. For there to be war there must be high-charged hysteria and the blind desire to fight. Without these we remain neutral...
...incendiary bombs, military men favor thermite, a mixture of iron oxide and aluminum powder which burns at a temperature of 3,000° C. (about 5,400° F.). Thermite was known before, and used as an incendiary during World...
...thing was first presented by the severe salon of Mainbocher on Paris' Avenue George V month ago, gave women the wasp-waisted effect designers favor, became the sensation of the Paris showings. A streamlined adaptation of the ancient corset, cut out on the sides, it was so stiffly boned that it made mannequins creak. But Lord & Taylor assured apprehensive women: "You don't have to worry!" Mainbocher's price: $40. A duplicate could be bought in Manhattan last week...
...young Jews were available in the Holy Land to swell 10,000 Jews already under arms. British troops in Palestine number about 20,000. To cut off German munitions bootlegged to unruly Arabs, the British last year built a wall along the Trans-Jordan border. They have courted Arab favor (over Italian-German incitement) with some success, rely on Turkey and her army of 1,500,000 to keep the Arabs in line and help hold the Suez as well as the Dardanelles. Last week the specially friendly, oil-rich Kingdom of Iraq bought 15 Douglas Northrop military ships...
...members of the International Genetical Congress met to discuss chances of creating healthier, more intelligent human beings. Absent from the meeting for political reasons best known to the Soviet Government were 50 Russian delegates, including the head of the Congress, famed Professor Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov, who is out of favor in Russia because he does not believe in the long-outmoded inheritance of acquired characteristics (TIME, June 26). Communists prefer to believe in the inheritance of acquired characteristics. Called home from the meeting were all the European delegates. Professor Gunnar Dahlberg of Sweden was the only one who stubbornly refused...