Word: man
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Mahan died in 1914, too early to realize that World War I would produce another kind of power, air power. Far swifter, far more plastic, perhaps far deadlier than any weapon previously invented by man, its great potentialities nevertheless remained, after 25 years of development and 1,000 hours of the war that would ultimately prove its potency, almost as untried as the 2,000,000 troops facing each other last week across the Rhine...
...work and enthusiastic gardening. Now he is red-faced, grey-haired, tightlipped, taciturn, tough-a model of a gallant airman. The only thing he loves better than a party is a party from which newspapermen are barred. There is, however, one thing he hates more than a reporter-any man who shows...
...John Golden) ushers in the season's first drawing-room comedy. It is a triangle play about the husband, the wife (Gertrude Lawrence) and the advertising agency that has the husband bewitched. Says the wife: Choose between me and your job. He chooses her, becomes her dream man again. Then he breaks his word and takes another job; but this time, for reasons Playwright Raphaelson keeps piggishly to himself, it's hip hip hooray with the wife...
...Handsome Territorial, The Girl Who Loves a Soldier, We Must All Stick Together, Here We Go Again, etc.) hip-hip-hooraying the soldier's life. Others (Adolf, You've Bitten Off More Than You Can Chew, by Annette Mills, writer of Boomps-a-Daisy, and The Man Who Looks Like Charlie Chaplin) poked ridicule at the enemy. Two songs with different tunes and publishers but similar words (I'm Sending You the Siegfried Line To Hang Your Washing On and We're Gonna Hang Out the Washing on the Siegfried Line) were already the centre...
...Abraham Flexner, grand old man of U. S. higher education and its severest critic, nine years ago founded the Institute for Advanced Study, where topflight scholars (well subsidized by a $5,000,000 endowment provided by Newark Merchant Louis Bamberger and his sister, Mrs. Felix Fuld) might devote themselves to the pursuit of pure learning. He brought to his Institute, housed in Princeton, N. J., Albert Einstein, a group of promising Ph.D.s. This month Dr. Flexner saw his Institute (now richer by $3,000,000) move into its own building, Fuld Hall, on Princeton's outskirts. This week...