Word: phase
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Observers could explain the Administration's legislative Blitzkrieg only thus: 1) the U. S. public found out at once that both sides wanted the same thing-i. e., that the U. S. stay out of war-and were arguing only over one minor, technical phase of the method; 2) the real debate had already been exhaustively aired for six weeks by almost every leading figure in all walks of life on the radio and in the press, leaving nothing for Congress but second-rate oratory on a second-hand subject.* Congressional mail dropped from its alltime high...
...disclosures, along with the Admiralty announcement of the torpedoing of the 5,202-ton British steamer Hronspool and a report in New York that a French tanker, believed the 15,436-ton Emile Miguet, had been found burning at sea, apparently signalized a renewal of the marine phase of the war. Casualties had been negligible during Nazi peace overtures...
...fact, both scouts related that Chicago in unimpressive scoring games put on a passing offense that will be hard to stop. Harvard's pass defense Saturday was decidedly weak, and the team will undoubtedly be drilled on that phase this week...
...Pittman believed that the mere question of repeal of the arms embargo was but a minor phase of the problem of national security. But as a practical man he knew how thunderous a drum-roll his Isolationist foes could beat up over that single issue. He set himself to smash their drumheads, roll the drum himself...
...machines whose wheels seem as if they might revolve for all eternity. And out of this maelstrom chimneys point upward like lank, black limbs. Breughel, in his work, brings out the essential sameness of man and his natural environment; Fiene shows that man is degenerating into an unimportant phase of a new and artificial environment...