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...figure as military weapons; tanks were unheard of. All three proceeded to make big names for themselves. Since the Armistice, military theorists have speculated much about weapons that might be developed in the "war of the future." Now that the "war of the future" has started, speculation is hotter than ever. One device closely watched by advance scouts is the rocket-not small signal rockets, but big rockets carrying high explosives...
When Robert Clive reached Madras one nightfall in 1744 after a 15-month voyage from London, he found India a "battered caravanserai." Its warring kinglets misruled some 90 distinct peoples whose languages were Babel. Its climate was hotter than its curry. Its diseases were "consumptions, fluxes, fevers, cholera, scurvy, berbers (a kind of paralysis), smallpox, gout, the stone, prickly heat, tetters or worms...
Wagner: Die Walkure, Act 2 (Berlin State Opera and Vienna Philharmonic Orchestras, Bruno Seidler-Winkler and Bruno Walter conducting, with Lotte Lehmann, Marta Fuchs, Margaret Klose, Lauritz Melchoir and Hans Hotter; Victor: 20 sides). Austria's Anschluss in 1938 interrupted a magnificent recording of Die Walküre in the middle of the second act. Already completed were Sieglinde's scenes, sung by anti-Nazi Lotte Lehmann, conducted by Jew Walter. After Anschluss the rest of the act was filled out by a 100% Nazi cast. Despite this patchwork, the result is good enough to make a Wagnerphile...
While the negotiators tried to twist words into phrases that could cover such antithetical views, the Japanese Army made things hotter for the British in China by organizing "spontaneous" hostile demonstrations. Neither the Japanese Government, which is afraid of losing its remaining power to Army extremists, nor the British, who are playing for time, wanted to break off the Tokyo conversations. Finally Sir Robert and Foreign Minister Arita agreed to a vague compromise formula: "His Majesty's Government . . . recognize the actual situation in China, where hostilities on a large scale are in progress. . . . The Japanese forces in China have...
...Harvard's famed Astronomer Harlow Shapley, during a brief excursion into entomology many years ago, discovered that the hotter an ant was, the faster it ran-in fact, that you could tell the temperature of an ant by its rate of movement...