Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...best and the only present chance to destroy the main German armies will be gone; the Allies will then have lost their best chance to defeat Germany and win World...
Rommel Remains. This was all very well, but the object of modern desert war is to destroy the hostile armored forces, or to cripple them so badly that they must flee. That was what Rommel had done to the British before Tobruk, and the resulting vacuum had made easy his drive into Egypt. As yet neither British guns, tanks nor air force had made a dent on Rommel's Army...
...range necessity of appreciating the Oriental viewpoint without which the peace can never be won. Says he: "There is no better way of learning to appreciate a people than through a study of their language." Hence his great hope that some day the men he is teaching will help destroy the old idea of "East is East and West is West." "The first prerequisite to a lasting peace," he insists, "is a meeting of the twain...
...addition to the shortcomings of the story, those of the direction succeed in destroying whatever vitality was originally there. Miss Swanson is made to parade back and forth across the stage in search of either a cigarette or an ash-tray in a manner that resembles Mac West imitating Katie Hepburn. This is a great shame, since Miss Swanson has a definite personality of her own which appears all too infrequently. When the influence of the director is apparently absent, she does a very fine job, particularly in the opening of the third act. Her limited knowledge of the stage...
...rubber-reclaiming plants the scrap is first sheared and hashed into tiny pieces.It is then sifted past magnets, which draw out any bits of iron. Next it is dumped into a "digester" tank where 1) caustic soda (sodium hydroxide) is added to destroy all cloth fibers and to remove free sulfur (added originally in vulcanizing); 2) coal-tar oils are added to soften the rubber. These added chemicals and decomposed fibers are rinsed out in water sprays and settling tanks. At last the rubber is squeezed into heavy sheets and baled for reprocessing...