Word: ernest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...British Empire forces in Malaya under Major General Arthur Ernest Percival are thought to number about 125,000 Australians, Indians, New Zealanders, Scots, and Englishmen, all well equipped and rigorously trained in jungle warfare. They are not too strong in heavy equipment, except in the Singapore area, where there is plenty of artillery. Air Marshal Robert Brooke-Popham's R.A.F. strength was apparently shocked by the first blast, and consequently the Japanese at first achieved local air control in north Malaya. But from London it was announced that immediate reinforcements would be sent by way of a long-prepared...
Dartmouth's Winter Carnival, prime social event of the Hanover college, has been called off, and all post-Christmas recesses have been eliminated, in order to release students for military and general wartime service by May 10, President Ernest M. Hopkins announced yesterday...
Forced by the threat of three of its own Ministers to resign from the Cabinet (Minister of Labor Ernest Bevin, Home Secretary Herbert Morrison, Lord Privy Seal Clement Attlee), Labor cooled off. The wealth conscription amendment was rejected...
...With Germany we step many degrees downward and reach the lowest possible depths," said Joseph Ernest Cardinal van Roey, Archbishop of Malines and successor to Belgium's late great Cardinal Mercier, in a speech at Wavre-Notre Dame. "We have a duty of conscience to combat and to strive for the defeat of these dangers. . . . Reason and good sense both direct us towards confidence, towards resistance...
There is another sort of birth, from year to year: the rebirth of a great name, or the slow filtering of a great mind into a new age or country. The year's best-publicized resurgence was that of John Donne, thanks to Ernest Hemingway's last novel. Less flukily the Oxford and Princeton presses between them brought out five volumes by Soren Kierkegaard, perhaps the least-known great mind of the 19th Century. The work of such minds enters the world silently, late, without ingratiation; but it helps restore the very values upon which human life...