Word: sooners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...critics' chorus died down when Mr. Hoover's one overnight convert, Colonel Charles A. Lindbergh, stuck out his tanned neck to echo the same idea. But Lindbergh went further than the Great Engineer. Denouncing Canada's entry into World War II, he asserted that "sooner or later" the U. S. must "demand the freedom" of all European possessions in the Western Hemisphere as a defensive tactic...
...complete frankness. . . . What Mr. Chamberlain has got to declare now is whether he is going to bomb Berlin or not. If he does the consequences will go far beyond our maddest intentions and will be quite different from anything either we or Herr Hitler contemplate. If not, the sooner we stop the war and arrange for the tabling of our respective grievances. . . the better. . . . Our Premier's pledge to Poland was quite explicit. We were to come to her aid 'with all our resources,' which meant that when the first German soldier crossed the Polish frontier...
...might hold that, as the 1914-1918 war was well worth while because it got rid of the German, Austrian, Turkish and Russian Empires, this one might be worthwhile if it got rid of the British Empire: not a very pleasant process for us. . . . But the sooner the order is given to cease fire and turn up the lights the better...
...Mahatma protested less, the art world would almost certainly have accepted him sooner. Not until 1932 did dealers and critics pierce his smoke screen of self-publicity, discover that his naive, whimsical paintings were worthy of serious attention. For a song, dealers then snapped up his lush romantic landscapes, his pictures of Samoa, his moonlit fantasies, his strange nude "nymphs" bathing in improbable streams. These have since sold at high prices, while Eilshemius went in want. Last week his three Manhattan dealers agreed to cut him in on a percentage of future sales...
...acoustical direction-finding is basically the same as that which enables a human being (with good hearing in both ears) to tell approximately whence a sound comes. The compression peaks of a sound wave coming in at an angle reach the near ear a tiny fraction of a second sooner than the far ear-and the hearing mechanisms are so sensitive that they translate this minute time difference into a sense of direction. The simplest directional hydrophone is a rotatable bar with a receiver at each end, each receiver connected with one of the listener's ears...