Word: dwarfed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...many ways the most significant of all the United States. First, its war job, already enormous, will be vastly greater when the German war ends, and it becomes the funnel through which most of the U.S. war effort will be poured. Second, its postwar problems seem likely to dwarf those of the other 47 States, for its main efforts have been in airplane-making and shipbuilding-the two most overexpanded industries, the two which will probably be cut back the deepest when the war ends. If California can keep its millions at work when the war ends their jobs, then...
...scheme, no delay on the ground fronts can save Germany from air attack on a scale which will dwarf all that the Germans have suffered to date. Sooner or later Italy-and surrendered Corsica-will provide bases for a southern air offensive coordinated with multiplied assault from Britain. Then, under the impact of defeats and bombs, the German people may have something to say about Hitler's choice...
...will glance into the near future you can see a very different picture from the one of today. The bombers will dwarf our present Flying Fortresses. They will carry half a carload of bombs across the Atlantic and fly home without stop. The bomber's skin will have numerous 'blisters,' which in reality will be multiple-gun power turrets controllable from sighting stations. Sights that compensate for almost every possible error encountered in firing on a fast-moving aerial target will control the guns-a sight as revolutionary as our present bomb sight...
...Babel one step is now being taken: the end of the war in Europe will certainly mean the end of the Nazi Ministry for National Enlightenment and Propaganda, of short-wave broadcast from Zeesen, of the Auslands-Deutsche organization, of Signal, the Nazi picture magazine, and of the Wagnerian dwarf, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels...
...papers with their vertical headlines and back-to-front pagination are a wonder to Westerners. The style of Chinese news writing ranges from crisp American formulas learned in U.S. schools of journalism to the elegant circumlocutory prose of Chinese tradition, in which the Japanese are always referred to as "dwarf bandits" and the loss of a city is conveyed by the announcement that "our troops have trapped the enemy at -, and are now surrounding...