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...going to the devil. "Hinnissy," replied the immortal Mr. Dooley, "F'r nearly 40 years I've seen this country goin' to th' divvle, an' if it's been goin' that long an' at that rate an' has got no nearer than it is, thin the divvle is a divvle iv a ways further off than I feared...
...succeeding decade the power of the Congress grew until it came to represent not only the vast majority of India's 240,000,000 Hindus but many of her 78,000,000 Moslems. War has brought the revolution nearer. Never in history have Britons and Indians been so far apart...
...Abundance of national resources made waste tolerable, thus sired economic individualism and laissez faire. But "depletion of resources is forcing people to new social theories." Peattie tactlessly equates geography with conservation, conservation with socialism. "If progress is to be made, each compromise must, in the nature of things, be nearer the social left." From geology to ideology, Peattie's small book is absorbing enough so that readers will wish it were big enough to munch an apple behind...
...massive uranium atom, heaviest of the 92 standard elements, into nearly equal parts, with enormous returns of atomic energy (TIME, Feb. 6, 1939; May 27). Even physicists who turn up their noses at Buck Rogers talk had to admit that the practical harnessing of atomic power was now much nearer-though they still insist it is far off. When a slow-moving neutron hits the uranium atom's nucleus, the nucleus is constricted around the middle and finally splits, like an amoeba reproducing itself. But though the energy of the activating neutron is only a small fraction...
...implication, Graziani further criticized the ability of the much-touted Italian Air Force. With its home bases and production much nearer Africa than were Britain's, this arm was admittedly overwhelmed by R. A. F. when the attack began. The Italian air fleet was bombed in its bases clear west to Castel Benito and Tripoli. In effect it never got off the ground, like the Polish Air Force in September...