Word: worded
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Another reader works out the total tonnage at 26,750,000,000,000. TIME still thinks "incalculable" the right word...
Sabotage on the Squalus was ruled out by the weight of testimony against the air valve and signal mechanisms. The Squalus board, of course, had no word to say about the British Thetis and French Phenix, whose loss naval officers attribute to the accepted fact that submarines are innately dangerous craft, which by the laws of probability should sink more often than they...
...clawing the Government for its haste to appease and its tardiness to arm. Like the sly puss in Kipling's Just So Stories, he has had to sit beyond the cozy Government hearth, destined never to warm a Cabinet corner unless somebody spoke him a kind word. Presumably because Winston Churchill is not only the Conservative Party's best brain but its most unpredictable personality, safe & sane Conservatives withheld their kind words until last week. Sly Puss Winston Churchill purred gratefully when he heard them...
Judge Caffey put in a word first. Said he: "May I inject the remark that I am most helped by statements which omit the trees and show me the forest...
...This week, however, the U. S. acquired a very competent specimen of the breed-a present from Adolf Hitler. He is Otto Jeidels (pronounced Yi-dels), a tall handsome man with a twinkle in his eye, who habitually talks so fast that no one else can get in a word. Before teller purged German banking he was only one size smaller than Hjalmar Schacht himself; now he is a partner of the Manhattan banking firm of Lazard Freres...