Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...while he was given a flight as a passenger but he never had a chance to touch the controls. In such a job Corporal Torner could scarcely be expected to win a Distinguished Flying Cross. Yet last week he got one for an "extraordinary achievement ... of self-sacrificing heroism...
...done the only sensible thing, but even his wife grows cold to him. Meanwhile Lydersen, who had shown fight only because of panicky surprise, becomes a hero, scorns Berger with the rest. Only one man, Rognaas, a fellow lodger of Lydersen's, makes mock of his heroism, tells him that Berger was the only sensible one of the three...
...Pure Heroism, unsurpassed by men of any race, drove some of the Chinese and some of the Japanese battling at Shanghai last week to supreme efforts, almost unbelievable but reported by correspondents who said they saw what happened. Japanese soldiers, facing Chinese barbed wire entanglements covered at close range by Chinese guns, walked slowly into the wire carrying dynamite, drew upon themselves a Chinese fire which weakened the Chinese entanglements little by little. Among "somewhat wounded" Chinese soldiers (men with perhaps an arm shot off or an eye shot out), a spontaneous movement rose to volunteer as "human bombs." Such...
Economics, Heroism is less important than economics. Japan, with her superior weapons, was beginning last week to weigh other factors of extreme importance...
...Japanese drive slowed up? Chinese heroism was not enough to stem the onslaught. Royal Belgium held out so long chiefly because her own able fighters had had so much previous assistance from the French General Staff. Last week "Three Germans" (men of a certain mystery but all experienced veterans of the World War) were said to be assisting the Chinese defenders of Shanghai...