Word: muchness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Western (Christian) Civilization we still have left the conception of heroism based on the Arthurian Cycle. Mothers still tell their children tales of the strong and the brave who conquer the wicked, cruel giant or dragon or witch. It seems a little too much to swallow when St. George deliberately goes up to the Dragon to be decorated...
...practical purposes determines the exchange value of the dollar. If the Secretary should choose to pay $40 an oz. for gold instead of $35 he would in effect devalue the dollar. If he should choose to change the price daily or hourly he could use the power for much the same purpose as the Stabilization Fund. Therefore when the money bill failed to pass, the Administration was placed in no serious hole, nor did Congress recover any notable power previously delegated. The real issue between the President and Congress was: Who is boss...
...Some of you will perhaps tell me that if that is my decision a general war will result. If so, so much the worse. I do not believe that we can meet, in the future, circumstances much more favorable than those that exist today. I hold that Germany, Italy and Japan are in a position to conquer today all their enemies combined. The hour, therefore, has sounded to take the supreme risk...
Though many thought this terse style highly unlike the author of Mein Kampj, and very much like the Political Section of the German Intelligence, the story did much to make the French jittery. They frankly expected a Danzig coup last weekend. The week-end passed without one, but early this week so many alarming rumors (and war preparations) had spread over Europe that Adolf Hitler apparently decided that the hour was not quite as propitious as he had thought. An "authorized" (but unidentified) Nazi spokesman delivered an extraordinary announcement, prompted by Neville Chamberlain's statement to the House...
Faced with the certainty that Adolf Hitler would try this summer to steal at least one of their Baltic "windows" and probably the entire Polish coast (see above), the Poles last week showed much the same steadiness and bravery that little Czecho-Slovakia showed last summer before she was forced by her own allies to back down. The Poles' big advantage was that they had lived and learned by the Czechs' experience...