Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important, therefore, that a determined effort be made to call this appeal to the attention of every man who is fighting now or preparing to fight for his rights and for his democracy. We fought one war to achieve our Bill of Rights. We must not let another war destroy...
Strategically, the week's most important development in Libya was the spectacular British sweep by "mechanized patrols" across the base of the Libyan hump. The patrols could not have been very strong, but they were apparently strong enough to attack and destroy Axis land convoys, which were working along the road which was the only Axis supply line from the west...
Containing Moves. When they had recovered from the first shock, the German armored forces took the initiative. They had three aims: 1) to engage and destroy as many British tanks as possible south of Sidi Rezegh; 2) to maintain a channel to the west below Tobruk, through which infantry and some mechanized forces could escape; 3) to create a diversion behind the British lines. This last move gave the British a short, sharp scare. Tank patrols actually penetrated several miles into Egypt before the British threw them back...
...Japanese were used to war scares. There had been press campaigns against Russia and against Britain, but this was different. The Japanese were told by their leaders that the U.S. sought to destroy them (see p. 27). They knew that now all the power they had wrung out of 47 years of blood and toil was at stake. With the weariness of a tired man about to be summoned to a task greater than his strength, the Japanese people waited...
...same way, eliminating frills from the curriculum and from research allotments would destroy its own purpose. Harvard's goal must be to preserve high standards of education. An over-enthusiastic use of the budgetary shears would lower those standards until we would be competing on intellectually even terms with state universities instead of offering customers a superior brand of education. Since the University's only bargaining point is its educational advantages, it cannot afford to slice out of its budget more than the most lacy of frills. Even the ten per cent cut last spring weakened the props...