Word: crossed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...avoid possible misunderstanding of the subject of his canvas . . . Albert Gold titled it The Enormous Egg Beater" (TIME, June 20, p. 23). Is this hoax or surrealism? The title might better have been The Useless Egg Beater. Look at tops and bottoms of the blades. At the bottom they cross, the outer blade inside the other. An attempt to turn the wheel would reveal them hopelessly fouling one another...
...International Red Cross was founded 75 years ago as an agency to care for wounded war combatants. Last week, at the quadrennial Red Cross conference, originally scheduled for Madrid, then shifted to London, the fighting soldier received little attention. Instead, the main conference topic was the protection of the noncombatant man, woman & child in time...
Since the last International Red Cross meeting in 1934, three wars have been waged against both combatants and noncombatants. During the Italo-Ethiopian war, Ethiopian villages were gassed and bombed, Ethiopians who probably had only a vague idea of the war were slaughtered by the hundreds. In the Spanish civil war, heavy artillery, efficient new aircraft are being used to attack cities and civilians. In the year-old Sino-Japanese conflict, Tokyo's planes have devastated entire sections of unfortified Chinese towns, killing thousands of women and children...
...with the notable help of Napoleon III, Dunant and his associates were able to induce 26 governments to sign agreements guaranteeing respect for the wounded, neutralizing military hospitals, protecting the material and personnel of medical services. Also agreed upon was the use of a white flag bearing a red cross* as the international symbol of sanctuary...
...Sokol-trained, a force of 1,350 first and second-line planes and an extensive "Maginot Line" of concrete fortifications and emplacements rooted in the Sudetens, President Benes believes he could hold off a German attack for three weeks. By falling back to a second defense line in the cross-country high Moravian plateau east of Prague, his general staff is convinced the nation could hang on for three months more...