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- Along with qualifications, I presume that methods have changed little since the days of Moses.
- That's very true. They remain essentially unchanged.

11 seconds sound clip from the The 39 Steps (1937) classic radio play.

You can hear this line at 00:40:48 in the radio play.

Quote context

[...]

- How does a woman compare with a man as a spy?

- Very favorably... up to one point.

- A woman's heart will rule her head much more quickly than a man's.

- Today, there is probably one woman to every two men in the world's espionage service.

- We've learned that if you want to make a man talk, send a pretty woman. And when we want to make a woman talk, we make her jealous. Both theories work amazingly well.

- It would appear to me that spying is one activity which provides little or no room for modernization.

- Along with qualifications, I presume that methods have changed little since the days of Moses.

- That's very true. They remain essentially unchanged.

- But there have been radical technical changes in carrying out those essentials.

- For instance, there's a machine, recently developed in this country, so delicate and so accurate that it can etch an invisible secret message on a surface no larger than a grain of corn.

- Or, to employ a commodity with which, perhaps, you're more familiar it could etch the map of an entire country on a single Lux flake.

- And that's probably the finest, thinnest and most fragile thing I can think of for the moment.

- I know that you can read through a flake of Lux, Major. It's actually only two one-thousandths of an inch thick.

[...]

The 39 Steps (1937) Sound Clip

The 39 StepsQuotes with sound clips from the old-time radio play "The 39 Steps" (1937), based on John Buchan's novel, first aired on December 13, 1937 on CBS's Lux Radio Theatre.

Actors: Robert Montgomery (Richard Hannay), Ida Lupino (Pamela Stuart), Isabel Jewel (Annabella Smith), Gene Lockhart (Mr. Memory), Leonard Mudie (Professor Bartlett),

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