Word: partes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After a quick crossing made none the less tense because everything had been so quiet, the Queen Mary docked in Manhattan day after Great Britain declared war. Part of the way she had been convoyed by British men-of-war. All the way her ports and windows had remained blackened, her outgoing radio silent. Aboard were $44,000,000 in gold, Banker John Pierpont Morgan, Steelman Myron C. Taylor, Cineman Harry M. Warner, Author Erich Maria Remarque and 2,327 other passengers. Some of them had slept on the floor, some on cots in the public rooms. Mr. Morgan...
...said: "Is this the last attack upon a small state, or is it . . . a step in the direction of an attempt to dominate the world by force? . . . No greater mistake could be made than to suppose that . . . this nation has so lost its fibre that it will not take part to the utmost of its power resisting such a challenge...
...resource-poor nations like Germany and Italy, a large part of war science is concerned with the invention and manufacture of Ersatz or substitute foods and synthetic materials. Germany's brilliant chemist, Friedrich Bergius, 54, who a quarter-century ago conceived the hydrogenation process for making gasoline from coal, is likely to be one of the most useful men in warring Germany, and one of the most hated by those who have to eat his Ersatz foods. From sawdust Bergius has extracted a digestible sugar, equal in food value to barley. Of the sawdust 60% to 65% becomes sugar...
...large part of the work discussed as Leonardo's by such 19th-Century critics as Walter Pater was not done by Leonard at all, but by his followers. "But after 50 years of research and stylistic analysis," writes Kenneth Clark, "we have at last reached some sort of general agreement as to which pictures and drawings are really by Leonardo. We must [now again] look at pictures as creations not simply of the human hand, but of the human spirit...
...some five years, preparation for war has been part of the education of every child in Europe. Last week Europe's children carried out their M-Day assignments...