Word: conflict
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experiences. He was twelve when the war began, and his parents' home in Mulhouse was French. Alsace-Lorraine was a major battleground. Mulhouse changed hands a dozen times before the Armistice, and Wyler spent considerable time underground. His most vivid memory: crawling out of the cellar after each conflict, wondering whether he was French or German...
...collection of books relating to the war have been placed on the shelves at the entrance to the Periodical Room on the second floor of Widener Library, consisting of training manuals for various parts of the service, books about the issues and origins of the present conflict, and material relating to civilian defense. America Defense, Harvard Group, and the College Library have brought the books together...
...triumph, Dr. Kerr left a dangerously exposed theological salient by declaring that the Christian faith is "dependent upon the outcome of this conflict." Few theologians of any denomination hold such a belief. They say that Christianity can lose a war, can even go underground for centuries (as it did in the catacombs), but that, because of its divine origin, Christianity's fate is never wholly dependent on such worldly things...
...basic courses, Mumford sees "a chance for me to put into practice the concept of education I have had for many years, which is that the humanities and science are not in inherent conflict but have become separated in the 20th Century. Now their essential unity must be re-emphasized, so that 20th-century multiplicity may become 20th-century unity." One technique will be to acquaint" students with "the great masters of reality," not politicians, businessmen and economists, but Sophocles, Shakespeare, Isaiah, Dostoevski, St. Paul...
...were conditioned to associate light with food, he shot a harmless blast of air into the cage at the moment the cat reached for the lid. This gale at mealtime frightened the cats. After repeated frustrations the animals associated the feedbox and signal light with fear. Frustration and the conflict between hunger and fright drove the cats quietly...