Word: brutality
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worst enemy of a ship at sea is not storm or submarine but salt water. It corrodes a ship's hull, propellers and condensers, greatly shortens a ship's life. Salt water has been brutal to the overworked ships of World War II; corrosion of their condensers (in which cold sea water is pumped through tubes to condense spent steam from the engines) has been so accelerated that many have to lay up every nine months for retubing. But a device to draw the sting from salt water has been developed by a Seattle marine engineer named Arley...
...with signal lack of success for 150 years-the problem of land frontiers. China's eastern and southern frontiers are sea and mountain; but in the north and west China shares the longest land frontier in the world with Russia. Corrupt and ignorant statesmen of the Manchu dynasty, brutal provincial war lords understood nothing of the art of world politics; Russo-Chinese relations were traditionally...
Whenever possible Chesterton made his points with popular sayings, proverbs, allegories-first carefully turning them inside out. "It is constantly assumed," he wrote, "especially in our Tolstoyan tendencies, that when the lion lies down with the lamb the lion becomes lamblike. But that is brutal annexation and imperialism on the part of the lamb. . . . The real problem is-Can the lion lie down with the lamb and still retain his royal ferocity? That is the problem the Church attempted; that is the miracle she achieved." In the same manner he explained the profound significance of the story of Fall...
...caricaturists have excelled lusty, free-swinging Thomas Rowlandson in the lampooning of social manners. Lacking the brutal bite of Hogarth and Goya, he yet thoroughly impaled many of the affectations and stupidities of his period. Prolific "Rowly" was born in London in 1756 of a prosperous merchant father and a French mother. His conventional schooling was followed by a year at the Royal Academy, two years of happy, standard artist's life in Paris (bills footed by a rich French aunt...
...believe Hitler knows definitely from a military point of view he cannot win this war, but he believes that owing to political warfare, which creates disunity between the United Nations, Germany will escape the consequences of her brutal action. . . . Politically he is a man of the greatest cunning and adroitness...