Word: germane
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Victory. "It is against the nature of things that the Fuhrer should be able to continue to overrun one sturdy and independent nation after another; declare it to be German whether it is or not, and expect it to remain a vassal State. . . . [British sea power] and France's wonderful army . . . [will] bring victory...
...continued sitting on their walls last week. Neither had a great fall and neither required more horses or men. The French did some digging in and dragged up some heavy artillery back of Perl at their supposedly "weak" corner by the Luxembourg frontier, where the right flank of a German assault would be protected by neutral territory. They sent about 1,000 men charging up a hill southwest of Pirmasens beside the Hornbach salient, but the Germans counterattacked and the French, after using planes to strafe their assailants for the first time in this war, marched down again. The Germans...
Furthermore, according to McKay, territories which Russia has taken in the Baltic "are little connected with French or British interests: all envisage the eventual German menace." This move will prevent the small northern states from falling into Nazi control "and at the same time give Russia strategic harbors for possible future attacks on vital German wartime supplies coming down the Baltic...
...century the study of ancient Greece has been thinning out in Europe and the U. S., becoming a luxury or a slightly silly passion, a rare specialty with scholars, a cliché or nothing to the people at large. Greek is hard to learn (though not much harder than German) and U. S. education has generally dispensed with it. Available translations are often out of date or poor and first-rate writers have had more pressing interests than to improve upon them. People who feel like studying mankind's past have been attracted to anthropology, not to Thucydides...
Through the past year the Cambridge division has spent its time in studying such problems as the status of science in Nazi Germany; the boycotting of German-manufactured goods; the relations of scientists to the press and radio; socialized medicine; and consumers' organizations, especially the Consumers' Union...