Word: yet
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Yet last week-of all weeks-with every one expecting Adolf Hitler's death rain to begin momentarily, perhaps from closer bases in The Netherlands, out spoke six-foot Professor John Burdon Sanderson Haldane, one of Britain's most outspoken and respected scientists. He saw Madrid and Barcelona bombed. Predicting indiscriminate bombing if and when the bombers come, in London last week he said...
...There is not a public bombproof shelter in London. A minimum of safety is provided by six feet of concrete covered with earth, yet the London public shelters have only about six inches of concrete. They would not protect against five-pound bombs, let alone 500-pounders...
Meanwhile, rumor had it that the German trade delegation in Moscow was running up against time-honored Soviet methods of delay and haggling. And the Nazis have yet to see even the first arrivals of the millions of tons of Russian foodstuffs promised fortnight...
...Freshman squad has not been called out yet, but its schedule contains Exeter, Brown '43, Andover, Loomis, Worcester Academy, and Yale...
Secondly, pro-Allied sentiment among proponents of this educational approach to the war tends to interpret a furthering of the Allied cause as a defense of American democracy. This, too, has yet to be conclusively shown; maybe British propaganda agents will be forced to prove it soon. But in any case, the basis of such a program for education here appears to be the old "one fact and a prejudice...