Word: came
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...long as men have fought wars, victors have exacted payment of indemnities from the vanquished. But systematic dismantling of factories as reparations came as an innovation in the wake of World War II. At Yalta and Potsdam the U.S., Britain and Russia tried to avoid the mistake made by the Allies after World War I, i.e., to demand an impossible money tribute from Germany; instead, they plumped for reparations in capital equipment. In addition to anything she cared to take out of her own zone, Russia was to get 25% of the dismantled plants from the West...
...birds of the forest came creeping around, charmed. But no one came very near...
...snake and the slanderer, according to Krylov, engaged in a solemn argument as to which should go first, and each said the honor should be his. The problem came before Beelzebub...
...slow-down in dismantling German industry, such plants as the huge Thyssen Steel Works in the Ruhr, which made ten per cent of the Reich's war output, would definitely not be removed from proscription. On Thanksgiving day, when the protocol was announced, however, dismantling of Thyssen came to a half...
...Radcliffe Professor of History, and Frank Day Tuttle, professor of Drama at Smith College, extolled the work of the Arts Theater at Cambridge University, England, and of the active drama department at Smith, F. O. Matthiessen, professor of History and Literature, and Brattle Theater Director Jerome T. Kilty '49, came to the defense of dramatic activity at Harvard. Kilty claimed University support and guidance a necessary factor but said he felt a separate dramatic department would detract from the regular general Harvard education...