Word: useful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...use the word "hitler" to signify lying? Why not use "balfour"? . . . Lord Balfour lied to both his friends, the Jews and the Arabs, promising to each what he could not give to both and what he gave to neither. With the British a lie becomes a terminological inexactitude which is praised by the world as diplomacy of a high order...
...TIME, Oct. 23, appears the phrase, "a radiogenic actor." There will be a small fee of $.04 ($.05 in Canada) for each use of this word for the first ten times, the rate thereafter being $.03 per adjective. . . NORMAN CORWIN...
...unbearably slow, and because trucks so often break down in Chinese hands, these lines are so heavily booked that some passengers have to wait a month for a seat. The planes are always filled to maximum capacity. Eurasia flies Junkers, C. N. A. C. flies Douglases, and both use German Telefunken wireless compasses and direction-finders-among the best in the world...
Nowadays France and Britain are said not to use women spies, believing them unreliable. France claims that the German Intelligence has stooped to hiring dope fiends, whom it supplies with dope, then makes desperate and ready to do anything by cutting off the supply. An ex-spy of higher type believed working now for Berlin is Norman Baillie-Stewart, Seaforth Highlander lieutenant who was convicted in 1933 of selling military secrets and imprisoned in the Tower of London until 1937, when good behavior ended his five-year sentence and he exiled himself from Great Britain. The London Evening News stated...
...Paper, for even slight offenses, such as failure to salute promptly, is "twenty-five strokes on the seat, carried out by two guards standing at each side with riding whips. The prisoner is lashed to a board. If he cries out, the strokes are increased to thirty-five. Guards use all their force, sometimes springing into the air so as to bring down the arm with increased momentum...