Word: sir
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Many another Councilman spoke, Britain's judicial Sir John Simon, France's forthright peasant-tongued Pierre Laval, Spain's verbose and lyric Salvador de Madariaga, but they all added up to the same verdict. Even rawboned Danish Foreign Minister Dr. Peter Munch had no good to say of his country's huge Nazi neighbor. He merely said that he knew everyone would understand why Denmark "could not'' (i. e. dared not) vote against Germany and must abstain...
Just what did impulsive Realmleader Adolf Hitler mean when he told cool British Foreign Secretary Sir John Simon that Germany is ready to sign a pact of non-aggression with any of her neighbors except Lithuania...
From Britain and from Austria, two tall, handsome, rich young aristocrats called on their Fascist mentor in Rome the same day last week. Just before Britain's No. 1 Fascist Sir Oswald Mosley set out for Rome he blurted: "For the first time I openly and publicly challenge Jewish interests in this country." Since Benito Mussolini pointedly ignores antiSemitism, this outburst last week earned Sir Oswald his mentor's displeasure...
Thus the cosmologists. Sir Arthur Eddington has done more than anyone else to bring home to laymen the terrible significance of the Second Law. But nimble Sir Arthur, having reduced the Universe to a featureless mass, refuses to let it stay in that condition forever. He shows that the Second Law is, after all, only a statistical law, a mountainous piling up of probability. There is no reason why, sometime, a number of air molecules rushing helter-skelter about a room should not -just by accident-rush into a toy balloon and blow it up. It does not happen because...
With Henry Ford so near, Ford of Canada's President Wallace R. Campbell might as well be right in the Dearborn offices. But the other leading representative of Ford abroad lives and works in reasonable independence. Sir Percival Lea Dewhurst Perry, the precise, erect, hard-driving chairman of Ford of England, is really Mr. Ford's General European Manager. On his board sit men like the Baron Illingworth of Denton, P. C., and Sir John Thomas Davies, K. C. B., C. V. O., but Sir Percival takes his orders from Dearborn, where rests Ford of England...