Word: length
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...characteristic Hitler digression of great length Der Führer passionately insisted that last May the President of Czechoslovakia "lied" in saying Germany had mobilized, making this his reason for a Czech mobilization. The fact that last week Germany was fully mobilized and Czechoslovakia had not mobilized, Orator Hitler ignored, shouting: "Not a single German soldier was mobilized in May! . . . That lie was invented to serve the criminal purposes of one State-Czechoslovakia, which was then ready to plunge the world into war. . . . I declare that the German Government will not tolerate such action for a second time...
Modern jai alai, as popularized by the Cubans,* is played on a concrete court about half the length of a football field, marked off to let the speeding players readily know where they are and to determine the boundaries of a fair serve (between the fault and pass line)-see diagram. Three walls are of concrete, the fourth is of wire netting to protect the spectators from a ball that travels 100 miles an hour. Object of the game is to scoop the ball (either in the air or on first bounce) as it bounds off the front wall...
...Roper, just back from Europe, telling everyone not to have the jitters, but anxious reports were flowing in from U. S. diplomats abroad-Wilbur Carr in Prague, Hugh Wilson in Berlin, Bill Bullitt in Paris, Bill Phillips in Rome, Joe Kennedy in London. After listening to Mr. Kennedy at length on the transatlantic telephone, Secretary of State Hull marched out of his office, across the street to the White House, to give a verbatim account of what Prime Minister Chamberlain had just told-and asked-Joe Kennedy...
According to mathematicians, the length of the day is determined by the speed of the earth's rotation on its axis. Slower speed means a longer day. According to astronomers, speed of the earth's rotation on its axis is affected by the moon. Reason: the moon pulls the tides, and a strong pull creates friction on the earth's surface, slows down its motion. This well-known fact, said Professor Brown, accounts for slight variations in the day's length, but the moon's influence is not powerful enough to cause such large changes...
...atmosphere, like spray from a hose in the hands of a drunken gardener. Such waves hit a receiving antenna beyond the horizon only sporadically and by accident. The Zworykin invention, using two receiving antennae hooked up to a single receiving station, and an automatic device to match the wave length at the transmitter and receiver to the atmospheric conditions of the moment, is designed to assure unbroken, even, ultra-high frequency communication between a transmitter and one receiving station beyond the horizon. It would keep the uncertain spray steadily pouring on its objective...