If not for that late 30s "course correction" and if the world had not clearly been descending into a major war, Roosevelt might very well have been defeated in 1940. The point is not made in Ms.

如果没有30年代后期的“路线的修正”，如果当时世界发生一场大规模的战争局势还不是很清楚，罗斯福很有可能会在1940年败选。

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Medieval monks noted that using a similar gearing system driven by a descending weight might be used to measure out an hour of time mechanically.

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It was on the half-hour flight between Houston and Austin that realized I might be descending into some culinary trouble.

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