Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...spectrometer, which revealed the interior architecture of crystals. For this work father & son shared the 1915 Nobel Prize. A famed, sound popularizer of science, Sir William once flatly told the British Association for the Advancement of Science that man has a soul, declared : "Science is not setting forth to destroy the soul, but to keep body and soul together...
...have been hearing since the beginning of the war actually originated in Berlin," Gordon W. Allport, associate professor of Psychology stated yesterday, "all of them play right into the hands of enemy agents who, with the help of German propaganda, are constantly trying to infuse untrue reports to destroy our national unity...
Wishful as this sounded, it might be true unless Russia could destroy the centers before the ground hardened after the melting of the snow. And so Russia turned on its own heat. Guerrillas drove deep into the loosely knit German lines, sold their lives stubbornly and took their toll...
Destruction is one aim. A guerrilla learns how to derail and wreck trains, blow up tanks, destroy planes on the ground, dynamite bridges. He steals at night into the middle of an enemy motor lorry park, removes sparkplugs, drops an iron bolt into the engine, puts the plug back and steals away with the satisfaction of knowing that the engine will be ruined when someone tries to start it in the morning. Or he drops sugar lumps or pours linseed oil into a gas tank, which will immobilize a car by the time it has run four miles...
...Lucia, who goes in for young intellectuals; of Norbanus, head of the secret police, who murders Domitian just before Domitian gets around to murdering him. There is Domitian himself, worrying about his place in history; tossing doles to the masses when he feels his popularity waning; plotting how to destroy the last liberties of the Senate. Against these monstrous Romans, the crafty Jews of Rome's gilded ghetto seem simple, hardworking, humane people. But despite Author Feuchtwanger's reporting of the Roman arena as if he had been there yesterday, the real appeal of Josephus and the Emperor...