Word: growing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Westwall. The correspondents wrote marveling descriptions of the Wall's depth, complexity and strength; its clever tricks of camouflage; murderous traps for tanks and infantry; ponderous guns for long-range punishment of the Allies. "The Westwall will never be finished, just as a forest never ceases to grow," they quoted one general as saying. They gave the net impression that the Wall was, if not precisely impregnable, so immensely flexible that it could bend indefinitely under assault and ultimately exhaust its attackers...
Perhaps he would grow in understanding if he attacked the problem from an entirely different angle. Instead of attempting to solve issues already confused by misleading propaganda, why not study the nature of war itself? What conditions are necessary to cause this phenomenon which makes men kill their own kind? Perhaps it only requires a single man to bring about such a catastrophe; perhaps factors over which humans have no control are involved. The answer to this question alone should go far toward helping him decide between intervention and isolation...
...coming competition is the last chance for Sophomores to compete for both Boards; accordingly, the editors of the CRIMSON issue a cordial invitation to any men who thrill to the sight of a big press churning out newsprint, to those who might grow to love the smell of printer's ink, to come to 14 Plympton Street tomorrow evening and see what's what
...reason to be proud. Philosophical Smigly-Rydz, shy and softspoken, had built Poland's Army until it included 1,500,000 trained reserves; deft Josef Beck, untroubled by accusations of lack of scruples, had maneuvered Poland successfully for years despite her precarious international position; had seen Poland grow from a small Baltic State to a power that had to be reckoned with in every ministry in Europe. Then one dawn over the Polish village of Puck a German aviator pulled his bomb release, and slanting downward through the greying light went the first missile of the war that meant...
...Punch (1906-14), officer in World War I, successful playwright and novelist. "When I read the biography of a well-known man," he confesses, "I find that it is the first half of it which holds my attention. I watch with fascinated surprise the baby, finger in mouth, grow into the politician, tongue in cheek; but I find nothing either fascinating or surprising in the discovery that the cynicism of the politician has matured into the pomposity of the Cabinet Minister. It was inevitable...