Word: seene
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next day Wartime Prime Minister David Lloyd George roused a Derbyshire audience by roaring: "I have seen the white feather embroidered across the Union Jack! I am one of many millions in this land who are humiliated by the spectacle...
...darkest times in the War. The French army had mutinied, the Italian army was on the eve of collapse, America had hardly started to come in. There was nothing left but for Great Britain to confront the most powerful military combination the world has ever seen. We came to the conclusion that it was most vital we should have the sympathy and cooperation of that most remarkable community: the Jews throughout the world. I bear testimony to the fact that Jews responded to the appeal which was made...
...Spencer Hawkesworth of Washington, D. C., by profession a Protestant Episcopal clergyman, has served as mathematician in the Navy Department's Bureau of Ordnance, has lectured on philosophy, discovered some 100 new theorems in geometrical conies, become a cuneiform expert, passed through four South American revolutions and has seen ''heavy fighting in the West Indies and China Seas." Last week in a curt, confident article, "Stellar Distances and the Expanding Universe," published in Science, the aging worldling attacked the "fashionable concept" that the universe is getting bigger, labeled such theories "folly," assailed the views of Expansionists Eddington...
...with China. Lester Cohen had wanted to find out something definite about the Chinese Soviets in the interior, had even contemplated trying to visit them. But after he had lived in Shanghai, Nanking, Soochow, Peiping, met an anti-Japanese volunteer who used a cigaret tin for a gas mask, seen "bandit-artists" being led off to jail because their pictures ran counter to government decrees, been offered a Chinese virgin for $17, his desire to learn more about the Chinese revolutionists left him. Day after day he thought he could see the social fabric wearing away, and "at moments...
...Clay of Amsterdam, who makes it his business to keep track of the invisible flow of cosmic rays through the sky, announced an inexplicable explosion of cosmic rays coming from a certain point in the heavens. Last week at that point in the sky a new star was seen to explode brightly. Hoping that the cosmicray burst and the starlight originated in the same explosion, Astrophysicist Fritz Zwicky of California Institute of Technology last week explained: "We have suspected for some time that cosmic rays travel faster than light and this may prove it. ... A colossal discovery...