Word: betweeners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When modern nations go to war, they take their scientists with them. The technique of atom-splitting, for example, is not yet a part of military technology, but physicists who can split atoms have a bundle of special knowledge and special tricks with apparatus which military and naval technologists can...
In Germany last week the liaison between science and the army was perfect: every scientist, of whatever stripe or affiliation, stood ready to obey the commands of his Government.
Timed to coincide with the Harvard meeting was the publication of Dr. Neurath's new book for laymen, Modern Man in the Making,* which is written in plain and simple style, copiously illustrated with pictographs. Dr. Neurath discusses such aspects of "modernity" as urbanization, lower death rates, lower birth...
Son of a Prussian officer, himself trained in a military school, Rauschning is an East Prussian Junker who joined the Nazis in 1931 because he could see no other way out for Germany's desperation. He became President of the Danzig Senate, Hitler's go-between in his...
Key to understanding Poland, says Author Buell, is its peculiar domestic and external problems. They are numerous and acute. Poland has 1) an unfortunate place on the map, between two countries which have more than once collaborated in partitioning it; 2) no natural frontiers; 3) desperate agrarian problems, aggravated by...