Word: leste
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Apropos of the review last week of Toscanini's recording of the Beethoven Fifth, lest you think us presumptuous, here is a review from the Gramophone Record Shop in New York City, Mecca and Delphic Oracle for classical record buyers...
...Prime Minister defended Viscount Halifax for censoring 44 lines out of a Britain-must-aid-Finland newspaper article by ousted War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha. This was done, explained Mr. Chamberlain, lest any reader think that Mr. Hore-Belisha was writing with "special authority." Two days later in Devonport the ousted Secretary, speaking as an ordinary M.P. to his constituents, spouted what were thought to be his censored lines, virtually called for Allied war on Russia to save Finland...
...said she was "cooperating in every way" to send them home. Chances are they will be sent in batches to Central and South American ports, whence many an able-bodied Nazi (including twelve pilots of Scadta Airlines in Colombia) has been successfully smuggled past Britain's Pacific patrols. Lest any of the Columbus' men jump the gun, their shore-leave privilege was discontinued last week...
...night before sighting land the Admiral knew it was near (as the best experienced seamen do) by the look of the sea, the gathering of clouds, and the flight of birds. He ordered sail to be shortened lest they overrun in the night. . . . It was a nervous night . . . with the dipsey lead hove every quarter-hour; . . .the young and inexperienced imagining that they saw lights and heard breakers, the officers testy and irritable, and the Admiral calmly keeping vigil...
...Lest the news from Paris terrify timid people, Physicist John Ray Dunning of Columbia said that fission experimenters now believe there is an automatic check against a multiplying chain reaction getting out of control. The accelerating release of atomic energy would heat up the uranium specimen; this heat would speed up the neutrons beyond the point of maximum effectiveness for fissions, and the reaction would therefore slow down, and stop...