Word: brutalities
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...only a cog in the awful machine that took no account of the destruction and sacrifice it tolled. He was a patriotic man serving his country. He took orders and asked no questions. His name will be associated in the annals of history with that impersonal and brutal engine of destruction which disrupted the entire world. Unfortunately there are others to take his place, others eager to defend their nation's honor, ready to make the supreme sacrifice for a cause they neither understand or care about. The myth of patriotism still supplies cannon with their fodder and armies with...
...Serbia after the War feel that they have been bilked of their due. The Kingdom that they thought they were joining, that of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, quickly became Jugoslavia, in which only the voice of Serbia could be heard. Bosnians, Herzegovinians, Slovenes found Serbia a far more brutal master than Austria-Hungary. Any effort to state national aspirations in public brought instant oppression, exile, often torture and assassination. From Serbia's point of view this policy worked for all the provinces but one. The Croats were not to be downed. They fought back, inside Jugoslavia...
...overactive thyroid is a busybody with a quick pulse, a temperature slightly above normal. She wants to wolf all kinds of food. The doctor may quiet her by dosing her neck with x-rays or the surgeon may cut out part of her goitre. Dosing with hormones is less brutal than surgery. Doctors begged pharmacologists to give them in pure form the active principles of the endocrine glands. When Chemist Edwin Calvin Kendall of the Mayo Clinic isolated thyroxin, the essence of the thyroid, about 15 years ago, a loud cry of applause arose. Since then other hormones have been...
Professor Holcombe went on to a discussion of the "experimental attitude and the governmental art" during the course of which he blamed the peace treaties made after the World War and the ensuing depression for the strange acceptance by a cultured race of so brutal a figure as Hitler...
...Less brutal was the conduct of slangy Able Seaman Jerry Edgerton: "I kept thinking about that poem 'The Boy Stood On The Burning Deck.' Finally my bunk pals shook me out of it and we decided to go overboard. A couple of girls came up and asked?polite but excited?if we'd mind their going along with us. I said. 'Sure, help yourself to the Atlantic and jump in.' When we were in the water I don't know what happened to one of the girls but when the other seemed about ready to give up I said. 'Come...