Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Legend had little to say about his tenderness to his narrow circle of friends, his unfailing generosity, his clear legal perception, his unerring eye and ear for the false, the unessential. Least-recognized was his long-time alertness for the preservation of civil liberties...
...brisk trade with the United States. Now it is being ruthlessly destroyed. The effect over here on the large body of Scandinavians in the Northwestern States will not be insignificant. Thus far they have meant a great bloc of isolationist sentiment in Congress, but their enthusiasm to steer clear of the European turmoil may be dimmed by the present tragedy of a nation...
...remains, and clarify at the same time the attitude of America toward her. She is now in the process of regaining the second piece of territory taken from her in the Versailles treaty, and with the more gradual domination of the little Baltic sea-coast states, it is clear she intends to regain as much of her lost territory as possible. As she becomes a great Baltic power again, she appears more like the Imperialistic Russia of old than a new Communist Union, with purely selfish designs intended neither to help nor to hinder Adolf Hitler. For America...
...proud and happy" to win the Nobel Prize for Physics (TIME, Nov. 20), but said he would not go to Stockholm to get it, because of the dangers of a transatlantic crossing. Said he: "My wife and I have talked it over very carefully and it is perfectly clear to us that it would be unwise...
...period of free fall," he wrote, "was remarkably free from abnormal physical sensations. . . . Consciousness was unclouded, and ideation [thought] was rapid, precise, penetrating and clear...