Word: fate
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Spain could embark upon, or long sustain, secret agreements to be disclosed like bombs, and followed by grandiose military campaigns that were like mopping-up actions. But the fate of Poland, and the way it was destroyed, planted that fear, made every country apprehensive of every alliance, made Germany and Russia distrustful of other alliances without being more confident of their...
...with a stick of candy while the big boys were killing the proprietor. It looked more like a step in a program of world redistribution whose outlines were consciously obscured, whose possibilities were unknown, perhaps even to the partners in the enterprise. Nothing suggested that Russia faced a fate like Poland's, the last country to share a grab with Germany, except the haunting recollection of Russia's new friends coming in her direction, armed to the teeth, as fast as tanks, planes and armored cars could carry them...
Although the total effect of the European war on Harvard registration cannot be learned until the final returns are tabulated sometime next week, the fate of one group of students, the holders of fellowships abroad, is already known...
Poland's Fate rested not so much on the fate of Warsaw-heavy blow to morale though that would be if it fell-as on the whereabouts and condition of Poland's remaining divisions. If they could form their mass of maneuver, as the French did around Paris, and strike at the separated advancing German armies, they might accomplish a master counterblow. If that did not work, there were still the rains to hope for and the Allied pressure at Germany's back...
From transatlantic planes and ships white faces last week peered out fearfully at grey, rain-lashed waters that already cradled 18 torpedoed ships, some 200 corpses. To escape that fate Britain's proudest ocean queens dressed like drabs in grey. In the second week of World...