Word: short
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This last act was one of those "short of war, but stronger and more effective than mere words" to which Franklin Roosevelt referred in his January message to Congress when he discussed dealing with the Dictators. It is expected to put an end to Germany's export trade to the U. S., which amounted to $92,000,000 in 1937, $64,000,000 last year. Said Adolf Hitler last January. "The German people must export...
...that did not settle the matter. In the Riksdag a member named Herr Wallén (who just a short while before had an nounced himself the Parliament's first anti-Semite) arose and berated Prime Minister Per Albin Hansson on the matter of the plan (airplane). In the course of his harangue, Member Wallén let slip details about the plane which no one else knew and which showed that he had been talking with Nazis. The Prime Minister at once condemned the whole thing as a German plan (scheme) against Sweden's Left ist Government...
...dims the beam 19,200,000 times a second. This is like nicking at regular but very close intervals a cable which is rapidly being paid off a drum. The light beam is split. One part is conducted over a long course (185 yd.), the other over a short course (about 2 yd.). Both are reflected back to a photoelectric cell. On the beam which has been over the long course the brightness peaks (nicks) lag somewhat behind those on the other. From the amount of this lag the length of one section is calculated...
...ahead in popularity is squash racquets. Its votaries have increased in number some 5,000% in the last decade. Now there are countless courts in most important U. S. cities, usually in clubs and hotels, but often in Y. M. C. A. and lodge buildings. Favorite short-order exercise for the not too tired business man, a half-hour of squash racquets, which everybody calls squash, is equivalent to three times as much straight lawn tennis. Ideal for winter exercise, it can be learned in six months, is low on breakage and not too strenuous for any active...
...present moment the United States is in a very secure position for retaliation. No matter what action had been taken I believe that relations between the United States and Germany would have and will continue as badly as possible, short...