Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Following the first fierce blow came tidal waves, several in succession to heights of 30 or 40 feet. Bath houses, boat houses, summer cottages, Coast Guard stations, long rows of squat and sturdy stores were swept away, hammered into high windrows of kindling wood or carried over whole to toss on the raging bay waters. Of 150 buildings in West Hampton Beach, six were left standing. In the bays, even in village streets on the mainland, drowning people screamed and struggled...
...keep the Great Powers waiting nervously for 30 hours last week while in Prague the President and Premier Milan Hodza labored with legal experts, finally produced not a note of capitulation but a suave reply to Britain and France in which the Czecho-slovak Government offered to "arbitrate the whole Sudeten question under an old treaty with Germany which they had dug out of their files...
...sense of shame." Only 36 hours later Leon Blum blazed up and withdrew his Socialist Party's support from the demands which French Premier Edouard Daladier and British Prime Minister Chamberlain had made upon Prague. Although these demands had just been ''unanimously approved" by the whole French Cabinet, three of its members suddenly changed their minds and wrote out their resignations, were with difficulty persuaded by Premier Edouard Daladier to change their minds again, remain in the Cabinet...
...Hague, meanwhile, Her Majesty's Government pondered whether it might not on the whole seem provocative to continue war games at a time when almost all Europe had mobilized or was mobilizing (see p. 14). Finally Her Majesty's Government, resolute in the Dutch policy of peace, stopped their games, sent 200,000 reservists back to barracks...
...last week was an other book by Professor Hogben, titled Science for the Citizen* subtitled "The Second of the Primers for the Age of Plenty.'' Started long before Mathematics for the Million, this hulking tome runs to 1,076 close-packed pages. It surveys almost the whole field of science, from its origins onward, is built on five main pillars: Astronomy, Chemistry, Power, Biology, Behavior...