Word: ifs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last June Sir Cyril wrote a pregnant sentence which in all candor he would probably admit is the real reason for Great Britain's fighting Germany: "Our responsibility is the defense of a great Empire." Britain does not want to attack; she wants to defend. But if the issue...
> Britain has two magnificent fighters, the Hawker Hurricane and the Supermarine Spitfire. These planes are both called interceptors. Their talent is getting up 10,000 feet in 4.8 minutes-to stop bombers. The Spitfire can go over 350 m.p.h. and does its spitting from eight Browning guns. If defensive flying...
World War II began by borrowing one of the theatre's best-known devices-the blackout. Blacked out along with everything else were the theatres themselves. But not for long. London, Paris, Berlin hungered for amusement; already during the first week of the war George Bernard Shaw, Margot, Countess...
"If this method of [tryparsamide] treatment can be made safe [by preparation with vitamin B]," said Dr. Muncy last week, "it may well be applied to all obstinate and long-standing cases of simple blood syphilis, thereby preventing them from passing over into a neurosyphilitic state. This would place neurosyphilis...
"Her brain," said Dr. Emerson, "is scarred at its base. [It] lags as if there were no brain at all. Its functions have ceased. She will always be practically dead mentally."