Word: battlefield
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...army, church and family, they refused to lie down again. In "Bury The Dead" Irwin Shaw combines a fierce hatred of war with a conviction that the common man has come to find a more important reason for living than giving his blood for a muddy strip of battlefield. Shaw is pointing almost towards a rebirth, a reincarnation of man on a higher and finer plane...
...Poland emerged from the World War a runied nation," Count Potocki said. Its problem was to change a battlefield into a well-run and firmly established country. Taking the problem of education as an example of Polish progress, the Polish Ambassador told how illiteracy had been reduced from 40% to 18%, with educational facilities provided for everyone of school...
...fight it out in the front line. If they got a bit hurt --well, that's really the most important part of our plan. Only the men over 45 (and the women who admitted it) and our special regiment made up of "trash" would be allowed anywhere near the battlefield. The rest of the army, which would be mostly college boys, could just sit in the background and think about next weekend...
...admonishes not to attack unless you can throw over four pounds of steel and high explosive for every pound the enemy can deliver back. British instructors are beginning to teach their infantry not to dress right in ordinary drill because that makes them tend to line up on the battlefield-offering a much better target for machine gunners...
...wise and necessary economics. But confusion is rife among them as to exactly how they are affected by supposed economics and the educational policies underlying them. Perhaps the relations between the Administration and the Faculty are not yet of immediate concern to students, and they can watch that battlefield with remote interest. But questions exist as part of their daily classroom experience which are troublesome and unanswered...