Word: 20th
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seen, and whose place names few Americans could pronounce. On the reaches of Russia, from the Barents Sea to the Black Sea, World War II would be very nearly decided. Ahead lay six months of good military weather. In those six months probably lay the great decisions of the 20th Century...
...cinema rights to The Moon Is Down (concerning an invaded village), 20th Century-Fox paid Author John Steinbeck the biggest outright story-price on record...
...French Revolutionists boasted when they sent Chemist Antoine Lavoisier to the guillotine in 1794, "The republic has no use for scientists." No longer do nations waste their resources by sending their best scientists to the battlefields instead of to the laboratories-as the British in 1915 sent the 20th Century's most promising physicist, young Henry Moseley, to Gallipoli, where he was shot through the head...
Bernard Shaw, despairing of any serious communication with his age, tried clowning to convey his belief that 20th-century man must change or nature would supersede him as she had the dinosaurs. Thomas Hardy, unable to conceive that the world in which he found himself could have been created by a conscious Power, saw evidences of "the coming universal wish not to live." Such is the cultural background of modern man's moral fears. It is also the cultural background of Author de Sales...
...Europe in the first decade of the 20th Century looked superficially healthy. Even now Author de Sales remembers that time as "the fabulous world of peace, security, order, stability," when "only the Russians had passports" and "a dollar was worth five francs and nobody thought that it could be worth anything else until the Day of Judgment." That Day arrived with World War I. Most of its victims did not recognize it. They failed to realize that the Russian revolution was an organic part of World War I-the first serious lesion in the civilized social body. The second...