Word: let
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Eleven stirring, martial notes, the opening phrase of one of Composer Frederic null Chopin's Polonaises, sounded every 30 seconds from the Warsaw radio station all last week to let the world know that Poland's capital was still Polish. Hour after hour, day after day, the notes came like hope rising from an inferno. For the world also knew what other sounds filled Warsaw-the bellow of bombing planes in power dives, the scream of fighting planes on the attack, the sharp whanging of anti-aircraft guns, the mighty thump, boom and roar of half-ton bombs...
...This is the bombers' job. That done, infantry could then be given a chance to do what skillful infantry has done since time immemorial: take up terrain favorable to it and unfavorable to the enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except for one spot on his back where a leaf stuck, and that is where Hagen's spear...
...been found and attacked "with little opposition from the German Air Force." The account of a British flier was released, telling how he spotted a U-boat two miles off, sneaked up on it behind a cloud. He opened fire at a man on the conning tower and let go a flight of bombs. These hit the water ahead of the submarine, which was diving. The explosions blew it back to the surface and "the nearest bomb of my second salvo was a direct hit on the submarine's port side. There was a colossal explosion and her whole...
Strong-minded Harold Willis Dodds ("No liquor at football games"), president of Princeton University, welcomed undergraduates at the 193rd opening session of Princeton, warned them of propaganda techniques: "You have no weapons to combat them except the clarity and power of your thought processes and a balanced emotional outlook. Let nothing else divert you from using your mind, however painful or drab its use at times may seem...
...Spring-Air Co. (mattresses) of Holland, Mich, informed its employes: "The name 'Spring-Air' . . . stands for buoyancy, for joyousness, for health and boundless, wholesome growth and happiness. Our products express these thoughts. For our own good, our words and thoughts should do so, too. Let's plan on Peace, think Peace, live Peace...