Word: brutally
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...retooling and new airplane design would bring with it. Another is that Allison, whose production is now only 350 engines a month (with a schedule of 1,000 by next Nov. 1), may perfect the 2,000-h.p.-plus 24-cylinder engine now in its research division. But the brutal fact remains that between building an experimental engine and making it work is all the difference between starting to compose a symphony and hearing Toscanini conduct...
Mitsuru Toyama is the dictator of Japan's network of secret societies. With fronts as dignified as chapters of the D. A. R., these organizations operate behind the scenes with a brutal fanaticism which the Ku Klux Klan never equaled. The master society, which Toyama founded, is called the Black Dragon Society, significantly after Chinese ideographs for the Amur River, between Manchukuo and Russia. Affiliated with it in various ways are groups with such names as the Jimmu Society (after Japan's first Emperor), the National Foundation Society, the Spirited World Society, the Native Land Loving School...
...rate for the present, by the action of the people of a small island in the North Sea, nobly and valiantly aided by the young nations of the British family across the seas. First, there was the retreat from Dunkirk. Then came Mr. Winston Churchill. Then came the brutal bombing of London, but there was no flinching...
...Carnegie Hall's ushers that the fight was fixed. Box office fell off; even Manhattan's kindest critics began to grumble. Last October the New York Herald Tribune's bumptious new Critic Virgil Thomson called the Philharmonic's playing "logy and coarse," "dull and brutal," said it had "the sombre and spiritless sonority of a German military band...
Bowden Broadwater's satirical fantasy entitled. "The Jewelled Channing Sisters" is a rather brutal, though skillful, revelation concerning the inner lives of a pair of tortured New England virgins from Woonsocket, where men are scarce...