Word: destroyed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Professor Kotschnig charged that, while thoroughly "debunking" the World War, the older generation failed to learn and teach the lessons of that war; it failed to solve the democratic problem of providing equal educational and employment opportunities for youth; its teaching "has tended to undermine and destroy the sense of values of the younger generation"; it failed to match the dictators' power of evoking the loyalties and purposefulness of youth; and now it fails to realize that deep-seated changes in its own attitude and teaching are required to meet the problem...
...Italians had tried to destroy everything that might be of use to the attackers. They touched off the damaged 33-year-old, 9,232-ton cruiser San Giorgio, which had been beached to be a permanent antiaircraft battery, with a dynamite blast...
...Shatzky told how the books had escaped the Nazi bonfire. After Freud fled to Britain, a Nazi official, who was also an ardent Freudian, turned the library over to a bookseller, warned him not to use Freud's name in advertising, lest more devout Nazis seize and destroy the books...
...Congress. But he left no doubt that he is utterly opposed to sales taxes or processing taxes which do not disturb profits, but soak the consumer. Ability to pay he fixed as the guiding principle. From these clues taxperts could guess the shape of the bill that will destroy next spring's beauty for many a citizen: stiffer excess-profits taxes* (not a straight-out increase in regular corporate income-tax rates); another increase in surtax rates on incomes, probably on those in the so-called "savings" brackets, between $15,000 and $500,000. In the making, taxperts guessed...
Next Step? Having already decisively defeated the Italians, General Sir Archibald Wavell had accomplished his first objective. All that remained was to see how completely he could destroy Marshal Graziani's Army...