Word: commonly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...much as they scrapped what the democracies called economics, the totalitarian countries scrapped what democracies called common sense. To ride the whirlwind of change, solemnly to preach howling absurdities, cheerfully to embrace glaring contradiction-all this served to conceal the war's aims, to hide its agony, to blur its issues. Guns and submarines and planes threatened the national existence of Britain and France. But speeches and explanations were directed like bombs against their reason...
...Germany who consistently dared to oppose Adolf Hitler was Colonel General Werner von Fritsch, onetime Commander-in-Chief of the Army. Son of a Kaiserlich Junker General and a devout Protestant mother, he grew up in the aristocratic Army tradition and had only one thing in common .with the corporal who became Germany's Führer;: both loved the Fatherland...
...with Moscow is broken, that Stalin's stab in the back has freed them from their pledges, that all is finished between them and Moscow and that they are henceforth only French citizens, entirely free, that is to say having now no other duty and discipline than the common duty and common discipline of Frenchmen. But let them make haste...
...Nobel Prize for discovering deuterium, the heavy isotope of hydrogen which makes "heavy water" (TIME, Nov. 26, 1934). Later, one of the Urey crews produced large quantities of heavy nitrogen (TIME, Sept. 20, 1937). Nitrogen is present in all proteins. Heavy nitrogen atoms can be distinguished from the common kind by mass spectrographic means, but in protein reactions they run along with their lighter fellows, and so serve as "tagged atoms" or chemical spies to show where the nitrogen goes. Carbon is a vital ingredient of all living substance, and by using heavy carbon atoms as tracers Dr. Urey expects...
...eyes and fiery swords." He wakes to find himself covered with snow, and a child runs up crying that he is a snowman. Thinks he: "And you'll grow up, and you'll remember the soldier. . . . Your children will tell you that this soldier was a common murderer -but don't revile him. Just think, how could he help himself? He was a child of his time...