Word: though
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sabotage on German, Italian, Japanese ships, most of which were actually pulled off by a certain designer of infernal machines named Waldemar Potzsch, a German-born British spy. When Potzsch was arrested in Denmark, Captain Stevens had the job of persuading the Danes to let him go, even though he was found to possess plans of a large German ship...
Chapter 11: Threat. Proud of its solution though it was, the Reich was highly dissatisfied with the threatening role the supposedly neutral Netherlands had played in this horrid affair-allowing an alleged chauffeur to be captured and a Dutch Army officer shot dead while apparently assisting British spies...
Last week, though much of his old ebullience was gone, old "Doc" Cook still held high his white head, as he chatted with Sir Hubert Wilkins. His talk was still of exploring. Said he, holding his fingers to his temples: "Most of all we have got to explore this area here-that lies back of the eyes and between the ears. When that cranial sphere is fully explored men will have no reason to fight wars...
...dust control, says the report, is prevention of tuberculosis, which spreads like wildfire through the ramshackle huts. "As a result of overcrowded living conditions it is not unusual for a silicotic father, infected with tuberculosis, to share the same room or even the same bed with his children, even though he is continually showering the air with germs when he coughs." The miners, who are 90% native-born, live in the most abysmal ignorance of the nature of their disease. One tried to check his silicosis by giving up chewing tobacco. Another said: "It's the likker that gits...
...There is not much the United States can do. She can protest to Russia, declare her a belligerent and an aggressor but very little more. But what is important for us is to try to see the issues more clearly all the time, and maintain neutrality in action even though it is becoming more and more impossible to maintain it in thought. Meanwhile states like Finland will be unjustly destroyed...