Word: whereases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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listeners: "Whereas at first London was the sole target, and as many as 200 aircraft on any one night attacked the capital, the present procedure is to reduce the total number on London and to use more in the provinces. Several of our Midlands industrial towns have been receiving attention...
"In the case of an English victory there is at least the possibility of a decent international regime," whereas in the event of a Nazi victory there is none at all, Professor Michael Karpovich concluded last night during an address on the differences between English and German imperialism, sponsored by...
One of the principle distinctions between the two imperialisms is that the British is already established, whereas success of the German policies of expansion would involve "enormous" cost to the world, Karpovich said. "The very fact that British imperialism is static is a point in its favor."
Whereas the Declaration, for example, seethes over British use of "merciless Indian Savages," Lamb remarks that 1) Americans first invited the Indians' aid in 1775, 2) Americans had won the tribes' enmity with endless swindles, 3) God-fearing Pennsylvanians had once offered a bounty for Indian scalps. Washington...
In the best Walter Wanger tradition, "The Long Voyage Home" opens new prospects to moviedom. It carries the technique of suspense beyond the stage of "Foreign Correspondent." Hitchcock's suspense is inherently melodramatic, whereas John Ford's is self-contained atmosphere, bovering over a plot of merely secondary importance. The...