Word: powerfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Warned by the rumble of approaching motors (and probably by espionage reports), Nazi anti-aircraft men, crouched beside their guns, had no targets until the British raiders burst from the overcast in a driving rainstorm. Out of formation peeled the raiders. Down they dropped in screaming power dives, slamming heavy bombs at some of the juiciest bombing targets in Germany: men-of-war and vital establishments in docks, fuel storage, ammunition supply...
Impartial observers were compelled to conclude this week that Britain and France, and also Germany, were withholding their main air-power for definite reasons. Allied reasons apparently were: 1) to wait for the U. S. to clarify its neutrality stand, on which Allied plane replacements depend heavily; 2) reluctance to invite German "atrocities"; 3) delay until objectives on the Western Front were truly defined and prepared; 4) delay in the hope that the German people could be disaffected from A. Hitler by the War of Pamphlets...
...flow." They wanted something to laugh over: "Old Chamberlain said he'd like to live to see the day when Hitler would be removed. Well, he has reached Methuselah's age, and I'm not sure he'll attain his goal." They wanted praise: "No power on earth has such a munitions industry. None has as good skilled workers. None has such intelligent workers...
...Great Britain is concerned. . . . Why did we feel it necessary ... to defend this Eastern power when our interests lie in the West, and when your leader has said he has no interest in the West? The answer is-and I regret to have to say it-that nobody In this country any longer places any trust in your leader's word. . . . Your leader is now sacrificing you, the German people, to a still more monstrous gamble of war to extricate himself from the impossible position into which he has led himself and you. In this...
Conceding that his survey showed that the University of Today is not a complete failure, Dr. MacLean found some of his findings "shocking." Said he: "It is appalling to discover that there are few, if any, observable differences, in other respects than earning power alone, between the graduates and non-graduates and between those who in college were known as 'good' students . . . and those who were known as 'poor' students. . . . They are culturally much alike: they listen to the same radio programs, read the same magazines, go to the same movies, feel much the same about...