Word: opinionated
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following opinion by Rear Admiral G.J. Rowcliff, Commander Cruisers, Scouting Force, of the U.S. Fleet, got into the press last week: "Neither nakedness nor underwear are authorized Navy outer uniforms at present. The sun's age and man's antiquity being what they are, sunbathing has been practised for some time in the past without a policy. However, the price of clothing, the progress of medical thermo and radio technique, and the existing inclination of mankind toward nakedness and idleness may require the establishment of a policy. Sunbathing, by its very nature, seems to eliminate clothing, at least...
...trial, held with full constitutional procedure, was open to the public-many traitors in the civil war's early days having been dispatched to their graves by star-chamber proceedings-was stressed by Barcelona correspondents as significant. The Leftist Government hoped that this trial would convince influential British opinion that it is not Red. Therefore, the most important charge, all correspondents agreed, was not any of the capital charges of treason for which the seven may be shot if found guilty. It was the charge that the defendants "did all they could to give the Government an extremist...
...technical opinion, Spain has been unsatisfactory, perhaps even misleading, as a war testing ground for aircraft. This war, despite all its unspeakable horrors, has not been "big stuff." A U.S. Navy-trained flier with the Leftists' Army last year wrote that the Russians had the best ships, the Germans the best-trained pilots. No man can be sure, however, to what extent Germany, Russia and Italy sent examples of their best ships to fight over Spain...
...drawback to Hore-Belisha's scheme to mechanize and equip this reorganized army is lack of weapons. Because of Britain's still-lagging rearmament program, even the Regular Army is not adequately supplied with heavy machine guns, anti-tank and antiaircraft devices, and observers are of the opinion that it will be many months before sufficient arms can be spared for the Terriers...
...asked the railroadman to bring his treasures to Toronto. After some study the archeologist became convinced that he had genuine Norse armor of the late 10th or early 11th Centuries. He sent photographs of the sword, ax and shield fragments to Norse experts in Europe, who unanimously confirmed his opinion. Then he paid Dodd...