Word: fateful
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Throughout the civilized world last week the fate of Finland and the future of civilization haunted the minds of civilized men. In the U. S. Senate Senator Morris Sheppard of Texas was speaking just before a proposal to aid Finland was placed before the most powerful legislative body in the world. It was cold blustery in Washington that day -considerably warmer than in Helsinki and a number of Senators stayed home. The aged Senator, tireless foe of his hatred of it whetted by his 37 years Congress, was in great form. Representative of a State that has twice population, more...
...your issue of Jan. 8, p. 13, "Washington correspondents . . . could not agree on a name for the '305." H. G. Wells in The Fate of Man speaks of the "Fatuous Twenties" and the "Frightened Thirties...
Harvard's basketball team was a doormat for E. I. L. clubs last year and seems destined for almost the same fate again. The Sophomore crop is far above average in everything but height, but that deficiency is apt to cost them a lot of games...
...This totally wrong war was a self-born evil, and therefore no good can come from it. Every country involved must come to a conference table before irreparable damage has been done. ... If the world does not pause on the brink of catastrophe, all nations will suffer the same fate. . . . Holland has received assurances from the belligerents that her neutrality will be respected, if Holland herself remains neutral...
Romains' countryman, Andre Malraux, achieved in Man's Fate (1934), a story of the 1927 Chinese civil war, a more vivid and at times more exalted work of dramatic craftsmanship than Verdun. But Malraux was working within far narrower limits, in what physicists by analogy might call a closed field-more exotic, more melodramatic, less austere than Romains'. John Dos Passes' ambitious trilogy of pre-War to post-War U. S. A. appears nearer to Romains' in scope, but his great powers of narrative and evocation are spent on a host of minor characters...