Word: furtherance
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Change of Heart. In the prisoners' barbed-wire stockade at Kalgan there was further evidence of a historic military phenomenon: the diminishment of morale among even the best soldiers when the road ahead is an ever steepening, rock-strewn patch, the enemy one's own people. For eight...
Zhdanov's exposition of Soviet policy put the problem of peace in terms just opposite from the way most non-Russians thought of it. He said that Russia would not be intimidated by exponents of aggressive expansionism who were undermining international collaboration, but would continue to fight for security...
The Toronto Star went further. It said that the treasures were "securely hidden in a church seven minutes' distance from Cardinal Villeneuve's Palace" in Quebec City.
Theologian Brunner has high hope that the "awakening" in the U.S. will check an overemphasis on social-service Christianity that he opposes and deplores. His warning: "Americans developed the social side of Christianity much further than has the European church; but in the process you have been losing, to a...
Another remarkable development of wartime research was a microphone so tiny that it could be inserted into the car to determine the intensity of sound at various points near the surface of the eardrum. A further discovery was that hearing aids are not improved by being adjusted to particular frequencies...