Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...itself, if Herr Hitler had been willing to accord to others the rights which he claimed for Germany. Revolutions are like avalanches, which once set in motion cannot stop until they crash to destruction at the appointed end of their career. History alone will determine whether Herr Hitler could have diverted Naziism into normal channels, whether he was the victim of the movement which he had initiated, or whether it was his own megalomania which drove it beyond the limits which civilisation was prepared to tolerate...
...streets of Berlin were practically deserted and there was nothing to indicate the beginning of a war which is to decide whether force is to be the sole arbiter in international affairs ; whether international instruments solemnly and freely entered into are to be modified, not by negotiation, but by mere unilateral repudiation; whether there is to be any faith in future in written contracts; whether the fate of a great nation and the peace of the world is to rest in the future in the hands of one man; whether small nations are to have any rights against the pretentions...
Andover's old boys were not sure whether they altogether approved their school's transformation, were reassured when they learned that much of it had been contributed by an old boy they knew well, the late Thomas Cochran, who arrived at the school with 50?, worked his way through, eventually became a Morgan partner. Headmaster Fuess hastened to add that the school "really has not changed in spirit," told his proudest news: that last year 213 of the school's 700-odd boys had scholarships, that the captains of seven Andover teams are working their way through...
Mused the Baltimore Sun, editorially: "Whether we like it or not, we shall soon have the opportunity, so passionately besought by the late Bobby Burns, of seeing ourselves as others see us, with the additional blessing of seeing ourselves at the same time, and in the same way as others see us. The philosophical connotations are terrific...
...Whether the war boom is a stimulant that will give Business a lift toward permanent recovery or will only give it a hangover, is a prime question for economists to argue. Last week in an address to industrial leaders summoned by General Motors' Alfred P. Sloan Jr., in Manhattan, Dr. Harold G. Moulton, pudgy president of Brookings Institute explained his view...