Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Reginald painted a scorching picture of Burmese scorched earth, too. "Absolutely devastated. . . . Every town in the path of the Japanese Army completely destroyed [by sabotage]. There is hardly one brick left standing upon another in the whole of Burma." Author of this devastation was a Royal Dutch-Shell petroleum engineer named Walter Leslie Forster. He had done such a job of smashing that "experts believe some of the oil wells will never produce oil again and it will be a long time before the Japs get any oil from the rest. At Rangoon we did what we could to destroy...
...Russian Revolution destroyed many things, but it did nothing to destroy this nationalist musical heritage. Shostakovich admits his debt to "The Five." But he is far too much of an eclectic to stay in the nationalist groove. He is also too much of a revolutionist. His Second Symphony he subtitled October (after the October Revolution). His Third Symphony he called...
...spent the greater part of his life studying the history and workings of nationalism comes the somewhat surprising statement that militarism and aggression are not at all inherent in the German people. Kohn feels that our greatest mistake in 1918 was the failure of the Allies to destroy forever the prestige of the German militarists. If this time every German is absolutely convinced that his nation is completely and utterly defeated, Kohn believes that the rampant nationalism of the 19th and early 20th centuries may yet be replaced by a lasting system of collective security. A little paradoxical, perhaps...
...scientists last week admitted that one war is being lost-this year the 58 U.S. varieties of termites, frail, pale, ¼-inch-long insects, will destroy some $50,000,000 worth of property (by boring into and eating the wooden framework of buildings), and almost nothing can stop them...
...gangrene. Open wounds should be treated thus: 1) all glass, bullets, stones, shrapnel, etc. must be cut out of the wound; 2) all dead and bruised tissue-breeding grounds for the bacillus-must be snipped away so that the blood stream can get directly at the germs and destroy them; 3) sulfanilamide powder should be sprinkled on the raw surface, and the patient kept at rest...