Word: telling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...investigator in the deep South met an oldtimer and asked him a few questions: "Did you vote for President Roosevelt in 1932?" "Yes." "Did you vote for him in 1936?" "Yes." "If he is nominated in 1940 will you vote for him?" "Of course I will- but let me tell you something, mister, if the damn Yankees up North don't quit voting the Democratic ticket they're going to ruin this country!" SCOTT SNODGRASS San Angelo...
...will tell you why the new memorandum [Godesberg Demands] is unacceptable to Benes-it is because THIS TIME I ASK THAT HE KEEP HIS PROMISE!" was the next Hitler smash-point. "The German districts must be handed over to Germany by October...
...Benes reply to demands made last week by Poland and Hungary that Czechoslovakia must yield her Polish and Hungarian minority districts to them, since she had promised to yield the Sudetenland to Germany. Dr. Benes left it to high-minded, sad-faced Viscount Halifax, the British Foreign Secretary, to tell Polish and Hungarian envoys in London at two extremely angry sessions that they could not have what Germany could wrest by her Might; instead, they must delay their claims until a later date. The psychologist of Prague correctly judged that this would be the point at which Prime Minister Neville...
There are perhaps half-a-dozen living photographers who are seriously and solely engaged in making the camera tell what concentrated truth they can find for it. One. the oldest, is Alfred Stieglitz. Another is a Hungarian war photographer, Robert Capa (TIME, Feb. 24), now in China. A third, one of the most adventurous, is a 29-year-old vagabond Frenchman named Cartier-Bresson, whose abilities sober critics have called "magical." Apparently carefree but quick on the trigger, Cartier-Bresson has snapped unforgettable, revelatory pictures of commonplace and sub-commonplace scenes, from bare French cafe tables to Mexicans with their...
When rayon appeared it was at first hoped that it would completely replace silk as raw material. It never did because, among other reasons, it lacked silk's elasticity (a rayon stocking, for example, wrinkles instead of clinging to the knee and sharp-eyed women maintained they could tell the difference at a glance). The new fibre (made of complex nitrogen compounds, among them cadaverine*), as silky as silk itself, can be produced in sizes one-tenth to one-seventy-fifth finer than silk filament, and in some sizes has 150% greater tensile strength. Its elasticity is such that...