Word: whethers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...valve failed to open properly but had never failed to close. It was disassembled, supposedly put in perfect order. On the Squalus and her sister boats, this valve is outside the hull, near the conning tower and invisible to those inside, who must depend on signal lights to know whether it is open or closed. The electrical signal system could have lied "if the mechanism was out of order...
...Capes. Evidence was that she, too, was flooded through the pipes which supply a subrftarine's Diesel engines and crew with air when on the surface. (Undersea, battery-driven motors propel a submarine, stored air supplies the crew.) A Board of Inquiry thereafter recommended steps to find out whether an automatic, interlocking control could be developed so that when air valves were open, the ballast tanks which weight a submarine with water and make it dive could not be filled...
...Populistic desire to give land to the tax-gutted and landlord-ridden Chinese peasant. Counting on Chiang's willingness to let the great granary of North China go, the Japanese Minister of War, General Hajime Sugiyama gave his underlings the green light signal without first bothering to ascertain whether the Japanese economy could stand a long...
Flying to a West Virginia convention, blind and deaf Educator Helen Keller asked whether the plane was not 8,000 feet up. It was, exactly...
...psychoanalytic procedure it is customary to counter the patient's own history of his case with the analyst's interpretation. Whether or not this psychoanalytic version is "truer," it sometimes succeeds in shattering the patient's preconceptions, in opening his mind to other alternatives of thought and action. Thus, in reviewing Jewish history, legends and attitudes, Freud very provocatively suggests: Moses, the founder of the Jewish religion, was no Jew, but an Egyptian...