Word: prime
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the thought of war in Europe, between whatever powers, for whatever cause, was abhorrent to most U. S. citizens. But after Prime Minister Chamberlain had appealed to Adolf Hitler, and agreed to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, after Czechoslovakia made a gesture of yielding and then prepared to fight, popular disapproval of Dictator Hitler (which Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull had helped to generate), and sympathy for Czechoslovakia as the innocent underdog, underwent a transformation. Nobody wanted the U. S. to go to war, but many were already cheering, "Go to it, Czechoslovakia...
...Roosevelt's genuine surprise, his man won. After seeing his three other prime Purge efforts defeated in Georgia, South Carolina, Maryland, he had predicted that disobedient Chairman John J. O'Connor of the House Rules Committee would defeat obedient, one-legged James H. Fay by 500 votes. It was just the other way around: Mr. Fay won by 553 votes out of 16,000 cast...
...confirmation today that Fuehrer Adolf Hitler has decided to order his armies to march on Czechosolavakia immediately if there is no prospect of a peaceful solution of the Czech crisis by 2 P.M. today--8 A.M., E.S.T. The report indicated that the Nazi Fuehrer, angered by the tone of Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's speech in London last night, has decided to strike quickly...
...Some regularly fade away, then suddenly flare up again with undiminished brilliance. Others grow dim quickly, unpredictably, then gradually regain their former radiance. The latter type of variable star has long puzzled astronomers, since its spectrum at its dullest shows little change, indicates that no fundamental alteration has occurred. Prime example is R Coronae Borealis. Reappearance is slow, sometimes taking many months. Last week John O'Keefe of the Harvard Observatory published an explanation for the behavior of R Coronae Borealis in The Telescope...
...find that the major ambition of all the finalists was marriage, not a career. She snapped: "I'm sick of the lot of you. ... If this is the younger generation-ugh!" The London Times published a quatrain written by England's Poet Laureate John Masefield to commemorate Prime Minister Chamberlain's visit to Reichsführer Hitler: As Priam to Achilles for his son, So you, into the night, divinely led, To ask that young men's bodies, not yet dead, Be given from the battle not begun...