Word: thoughts
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Fortnight ago the thought of war in Europe, between whatever powers, for whatever cause, was abhorrent to most U. S. citizens. But after Prime Minister Chamberlain had appealed to Adolf Hitler, and agreed to the dismemberment of Czechoslovakia, after Czechoslovakia made a gesture of yielding and then prepared to fight, popular disapproval of Dictator Hitler (which Mr. Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull had helped to generate), and sympathy for Czechoslovakia as the innocent underdog, underwent a transformation. Nobody wanted the U. S. to go to war, but many were already cheering, "Go to it, Czechoslovakia...
...Gollancz, London, 78 6d), which thousands of Britons were reading last week. They knew for certain that fleets of German bombers were already being prepared in the Reich for quick takeoffs (see p. 15). Digging through Professor Haldane's 296 pages to learn what Science thought would be their fate and what Science advised could be done about it, Britons found crumbs of comfort only in the belief of Professor Haldane that no new and unprecedented weapons such as "death rays'' or "germ bombs" are likely at present to be held in reserve by any country...
...without light, without heat, without food or medical aid where waters rolled down from mountains and swept all before them. And many came from New York, threading their way in cars through devastated countryside or flying over the Connecticut River that resembled a lake without boundaries: They must have thought of what they could not see, of the people who once lived on those fields...
...convenient time, because he thinks he is a good friend of the instructor, because it meets in the same room as his preceding class and he will not have to wake up to change classes, or because its examination comes at a convenient date, he will have a well thought out and serious reason for taking it when he confronts his tutor today or tomorrow for his signature on the study card, which must be field in University Hall by 5 o'clock tomorrow afternoon...
...dank, dark, bar of a small-town hotel somewhere in up-state New York. Here they were, the whole train-load of them, stranded, with wash-outs ahead and bridges, out behind, isolated on a flood-girdled island. He was wet and weary and he thought rather apprehensively of the rising waters all around, but the beer was good and, by God, this was adventure of a sort. Out of another day was this dingy room, with its hideously-hewn, dirty-mirrored bar, its splintery floor, its dirty walls plastered with reward notices of rogues, new ond old. On these...