Word: grimness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Tracing Lindbergh's admiration of the German air force, his alarm over British unpreparedness, Nicolson said: "He liked their grim efficiency and liked the mechanization of the State and he was not at all deterred by the suppression of free thought and free discussion. . . . The slow, organic will power of Britain eluded his observation. . . . He is and always will be not merely a schoolboy hero but also a schoolboy...
...grim game of blockade and counter-blockade, which is Great Britain's deepest strategy against Germany, Britain continued last week to score herself far ahead of the enemy with 338,000 tons of "contraband'' cargoes seized at control ports to 174,000 tons of shipping lost (as of Oct. 17).* Winston Churchill announced for his Admiralty, moreover, that 29,000 tons of enemy bottoms had been captured and 104,000 tons of new British ships brought into service. Convoys for British shipping were now organized in the Seven Seas. Across the Atlantic a series of radio patrols...
Brawny jack-tars of the Red Navy this week entered the harbor of Tallinn, Estonia's capital, on a hulking grey-snouted cruiser and ten smaller Soviet warships. To statesmen this was grim business, the physical establishment of the Red Navy on a base dominating Estonia and commanding the Gulf of Finland in accordance with the treaty which Dictator Stalin recently forced Estonia to sign (TIME, Oct. 16), but for the sailors it was a lark, an adventure into the strange world of Capitalism...
...upholding the principles and ideals of human life in which we believe." President Seymour of Yale warned that "a defeat, complete or even partial, of the Western democracies in the present war must be regarded as a disaster of the first magnitude for this country." President Conant foresaw grim eventualities if Germany should win. "I believe that if these countries (France and England) are defeated . . . . the hope of free institutions . . . will be jeopardized." These examples are only the most prominent among many that could be pointed...
...distribution of Communist pamphlets last week, Harvard is now facing nationwide criticism. In its erroneous news story, the New York Times went so far as to imply a full-fledged university drive against the "red menace." Perhaps blinded by the nearness of the horizon, the Yale News perceived a "grim portent" and editorially lamented that "the university which has given more liberal thinkers to the nation than any other should be the one to lose faith in academic freedom...