Word: die
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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After his last speech this leading man of World War II had dashed off into the night, vowing to conquer or die (TIME, Sept. 18). That instalment ended as he plunged into the unknown-where, surprisingly, there were many photographers planted by the Propaganda Ministry. Mighty events transpired; Poland fell; tensely the world waited for the Führer's next speech. Last week he made it (see p. 20). He was in Danzig. He had got it. He had said he would. Again he damned Alfred Duff Cooper as a warmonger, apparently unaware that Duff Cooper had been...
...things have made Chancellor Bow man one of the most talked-about U. S. educators: his football team and his (still unfinished) 42-story Cathedral of Learning, which he has been building these 18 years. To picture this cathedral to the architect, he played the Magic Fire Music from Die Walküre on a phonograph. "There you have it," he said. "Climax rising above climax." As Dr. Bowman's Cathedral rose, so did his highhandedness. He fired liberal teachers right and left; during the purge 25 walked the plank, 59 quit. When the American Association of University Professors...
...Swing will die within the next six months," said Paul Whiteman in 1934. Since then, not only has it made the phonograph record industry worth a small mint, but it has shown nightclub owners and theatre operators that life is something besides a bowl of red ink. The San Francisco Fair wasn't doing too well until Benny Goodman and cohorts arrived on the scene. And we doubt very much that Mr. Whalen has been booking swing bands for the New York Fair because he likes their brand of "jump" music...
...rule merely looked like the invention of lunatics. Even more incomprehensible was the Christian religion. Why, asked incredulous natives, did God scorn polygamy when "only poor men have one wife, and God does not like poor men." Why pray when there is no immediate bad luck! An old man, dying a few years after British occupancy, summed up for his generation: "Soon I shall die, for I have seen enough...
Although the war in Europe has placed a burden upon the present college generation--especially upon the freshmen--we must not allow it to crush us to the earth. We must not permit the "tonight be merry for tomorrow we die" spirit to ruin our academic careers. A full liberal-arts education is still for the having if we desire it strongly enough. Most important of all, we must have widely educated men if civilization is to go on. In this military era, scholars as well as governments can and must be militant...