Word: senting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...marriage of my daughter to the man she loves, whom I have found worthy of her love; this is not the marriage of The Netherlands to Germany." She wrote to Herr Hitler, and the passports were returned. On the Fuhrer's birthdays she has always tactfully sent congratulations, and fortnight ago, when he escaped assassination, she wired her "relief" at his good fortune...
...columnist on the Manchester Guardian asked old George Bernard Shaw if he had sent Hitler a congratulatory telegram on his escape from the Bürgerbraü bombing. Shaw said he had not, but that Chamberlain should have wired Hitler: "Greatly as the British nation regrets your escape, decency obliges the British Government to congratulate...
...Huge electromagnets to draw submarines to the side of a battleship, where the submarine's crew would be electrocuted by an electric current sent through the hull...
...many ideas of this specific gravity were sent in that the authorities got to skimming them over rather hurriedly, perhaps missing a few that had some actual value. The story is still current in Britain that in 1915 a gunner submitted a device for plotting the course of attacking aircraft to increase the accuracy of antiaircraft fire. In 1918 he was finally permitted to demonstrate, and his gadget performed so effectively for altitudes up to 16,000 feet that it was adopted forthwith, helped repel the last big German air raid...
...World War II the British are taking no chances of missing the useful needle among the preposterous straws of the haystack. In the Ministry of Supply an Invention Board has been set up to collect and consider, not only ideas submitted directly to Government departments, but also those sent to manufacturers, who have found their influx of suggestions quadrupled since the war started. Some British ideas...