Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British Prime Minister added up what Britain and France might have to pay throughout the world if they fought- even if they won-he also could plainly see on the map Adolf Hitler's chosen path via Czechoslovakia at least as far as Turkey (see p. 23), with echoes from the past of Kaiser Wilhelm's dream of an axis from "Berlin to Bagdad." In its relative size on the map of trouble this Nazi threat has its place. So have portions of Africa about which there may soon be attempted trading. *Obviously if Nazis will not trade...
When President Eduard Benes, after yielding to the Munich demands, obtained by his last appeal to Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain an immediate British loan of $50,000,000 to Czechoslovakia, he had played his last card...
...prime obstacle in general education," he says, "is a feeling of helplessness before the unintelligible. Every problem is new to the mind which first meets it and it is baffling until he can recognize in it something which he has met and dealt with already. The all important difference between the mind which can clear itself by thought and the mind which remains bewildered and can proceed only by burying the difficulty in a formula-retained, at best, by mere rote memory-is in this power to recognize the new problem as, in part, an old conquest." Intelligence...
...Professor Terman and his staff examined 792 middle-class couples (average income: $2,450) in California. He asked them hundreds of questions, took elaborate precautions to preserve their anonymity so they would answer truthfully. Biggest news in his report is a finding that satisfactory sexual mating is not the prime requirement for marital happiness. Highlights...
...Winston Spencer Churchill, a Cabinet Minister at 34, writer, painter, orator, jack-of-all-talents, is an unfortunate man. Too brilliant a politician to become a first-rate writer, he has been too brilliant a writer, in a country which puts a premium on imposing mediocrity, to become Prime Minister...