Word: longingly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Adolf: "Oh, I'm not particular as to size, so long as I'm bigger than the British Empire and the French Empire and the Dutch Empire and Belgium and the Balkans all rolled into one. You see, 90,000,000 people...
...Three long tables were piled high with goodies calculated to water many a Nazi mouth: caviar, turkey, sausages, cream puffs, cakes, vodka, Rhine wine, punch, liqueurs, beer. Biggest culinary drawing card: real coffee pouring out of steaming samovars. Most of the guests talked a lot more about eating than about the war, official Hitler Photographer Heinrich Hoffmann describing, between mouthfuls, the gustatory delights of his favorite culinary combination - boiled potatoes and dry champagne...
...odds-on bet that Alice in Wonderland could not keep out of the war very long once Great Britain got in. Last week news of an extraordinary Triple Alliance-Lewis Carroll, Adolf Hitler and the British Broadcasting Corp. reached the U. S. Alice had become a wild satire called Adolf in Blunderland, a skit that ably combined entertainment value with rib-tickling, moral-upping, home propaganda value...
...Long time the Gestapo he taught...
...prize for Physics was awarded to a U. S. scientist who has long been due for it-jovial, 38-year-old Ernest Orlando Lawrence of the University of California. About a decade ago Lawrence invented the cyclotron, most efficient and powerful of atom-smashing devices, which spirals atomic bullets up to tremendous speeds by repeated electrical pushes. With his 85-ton cyclotron Lawrence and his numerous co-workers have created scores of artificially radioactive substances, including common salt, and have even created a few atoms of gold. He now has a 225-ton cyclotron and is planning an even bigger...