Word: broken
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...factors make today's B. E. F. even more informal than the one Sir Philip knew before. Though the caste system still remains between officers & men, it has been broken down somewhat by: 1) removing the ban on officers' hobnobbing with enlisted men off duty; 2) ruling that officers may be chosen from the ranks...
...traitor" between 1916-1918 is now being rehired. In the last year or so a great university has sent a widow the check for the last salary of a professor fired because he did not support the American involvement in the last European war. Most objectors, however, were broken at the wheel of the war hysteria of that time...
...Swedish men and women, chosen representatives of the Swedish people! ... A war has broken out, the scope and effects of which cannot be estimated. Immeasurable is the misfortune of those people who are drawn into this war. Devastating consequences are to be expected also for others...
...Jane Austen novel or a Lytton Strachey biography, it steered hard away from the old 1914 concept of the Germans as Huns or their ruler as The Beast of Berlin. Instead, it described them as understandable dupes and Hitler as a powerful but pitiable man. Sir Nevile had further broken precedent by writing the best of his memoirs 30 days, instead of 30 years, after the events happened. Excerpts...
...last week could have so mistaken their social standing. Neat, spry and greying, the American College of Surgeons wandered among the palms of the Bellevue-Stratford Hotel surveying wall-racks steely-bright with surgical knives, forks and spoons, rooms crowded with electrical vibrating beds, weird steel scaffolds for broken limbs, gently breathing rubber bellows for warming frozen toes. Among the most popular of the commercial exhibits was the table of urological tubes and periscopes shown by C. R. Bard, Inc. of Manhattan. Over the table hung a large panel of giddy French cartoons, drawn 30 years ago by A. Barr...