Word: thinks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lightning on the golf course or other places in the open [TIME, Aug. 15, 22]. Are there records of automobiles ever having been struck by lightning, and does the movement of the car affect its chances of being hit? What danger would there be to the occupants? I think the answer to this question might be of general interest...
With outraged vehemence, Secretary of War Harry Woodring retorted that Major Generall Moseley "was disappointed in his ambition to become Chief of Staff. . . . As to the reasons why General [Malin] Craig was preferred for the important post, I do not think anyone needs to look farther than to read General Moseley's flagrantly disloyal statement...
...Senator Edward R. Burke, Nebraska's loud non-New Deal Democrat, returned from a trip abroad with plenty to say. Sample: "In the things Hitler actually is doing to bring about the well-being of the entire German people, I think that he is greater than Bismarck. He already has done more than Bismarck did for the masses of people...
...Dear Reichskanzler . . ." began the Prime Minister. "The difficulty I see about the proposal you put to me yesterday afternoon arises from the suggestion that the areas should in the immediate future be occupied by German troops. ... I do not think you have realized the impossibility of my agreeing to put forward any plan unless I have reason to suppose it will be considered by public opinion in my country, in France, and indeed in the world generally, as carrying out the principles already agreed upon in an orderly fashion and free from the threat of force. . . . There must surely...
...career a few years back. On April 19, 1892 he first scooted his pace-setting gasoline buggy along leafy Taylor Street in Springfield, Mass, to give the four-billion-dollar automobile industry its first real push. His contraption was pretty primitive. It grew out of a love for horses ("Think of it. We have no tails to dock, no checkreins, no whips, no blinders, no sore backs") and at one stage in the gasoline buggy's development he even considered building a buggy with a tractor unit shaped like a horse in order not to frighten real horses...