Word: spokes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Neither the Government nor the Opposition entered the House this week with a program of doing anything about what Labor members bitterly spoke of in private as "the rape of Austria." However, 3,500,000 British trade unionists are organized under the Trades Union Congress and its Chairman, Mr. H. H. Elvin, roused a Labor audience to cheers by proposing that Britain demand that Germany withdraw from Austria and, in case of Hitler's expected refusal, break off diplomatic relations with Germany and Italy and expel from the British Isles all Nazis and Fascists, permitting other Germans and Italians...
This struck British statesmen as amateurish, fantastic, dangerous. When the Prime Minister rose in the House of Commons he spoke with an air of firmness which fired Associated Press to fire Manhattan's World-Telegram to headline eight columns wide: "BRITAIN WARNS GERMANY-WILL MEET FORCE WITH FORCE." It was the Prime Minister's character and reputation, rather than his words, which gave this impression for Neville Chamberlain actually said: "The hard fact is that nothing could have arrested this action by Germany unless we and others with us had been prepared to use force to prevent...
This attitude annoys scientists. Science, say they, is doing all right; the fault lies with statesmen, teachers, economists, philosophers, writers who have not caught up to science. On behalf of these irate scientists Stuart Chase spoke out in The Tyranny of Words (TIME, Jan. 24), blamed the world's ills on the fact that people live by nonscientific words and principles...
...omit any mention of the Harvard Russian Circle? Surely there is some news-value in the fact that he spoke under the auspices of the Harvard Russian Circle, a non-political organization for the study and appreciation of Russian history and culture. I should think that you might even consider newsworthy the fact that there are at Harvard enough people with a non-political interest in Russia to form such a club. Sincerely yours, Jeffrey Fuller '38, President, The Harvard Russian Circle...
...spoke by means of a number alphabet, one bark for a, two for b, three for c, as far as 16 for p; then backwards, ten for q, nine for r, to one for z. If there was doubt, Kurwenal was asked "Backwards?" or "Forward?" "Yes," he would say with one bark; or "No," with two. Among his intellectual feats...