Word: heroisms
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...horrors of war, heroism under fire, gruelling work with sleepless nights, adventure, and love were part of the experiences of Harvard men in World War II, according to H. B. Willis '12, commanding officer of section one of the American Field Service on the French front...
...being told, to be sure, that it is something different a holy crusade for a holy cause! just as we were told this thing about the war of 1914-18. Every war is always "different" from other wars while it is being fought and the glamor of heroism and sacrifice is still upon it. But when "the cold gray dawn of the morning after" has come, the sordid reality is revealed. The last war, as the documents have proved, was not holy at all. And this war is the continuation of that war! So says the Hon. Winston Churchill, Prime...
...Heroism joined hands with horror through the long night of waiting. One ten-year-old boy encouraged a dying nurse, cradling her head in his arms as he reassured her: "I can see boats, nurse. It won't be long now-everything will be all right." Piped a 13-year-old girl: "Don't worry, nurse. The British Navy won't let us down." A London publisher held a dead baby in his lap, pretended to feed it from its bottle to comfort the dying mother. Another Londoner tried to help by caring for the dead...
...occupy begrimed buildings on Manhattan's lower Fourth and Fifth Avenues. Mission secretaries complacently recalled China's stand in 1927 when the Nationalist Government insisted that natives head every Chinese Christian college and school. Then pessimists thought missions in China were done for. Now, thanks to dogged heroism during China's war, missionaries have more influence there than ever before. But China was not trying to become a totalitarian state. In Japan the time may soon come when Christians will have to become martyrs or see Christianity disappear in all but name...
Hitler's artists (nearly all unknown outside Germany) had sheep-footed it neatly along their Führer's academic path. Patriotism, heroism, war and svelte, 100% Nordic nudes dominated the show, with many busts and figures of Mussolini and Critic Hitler thrown in for good political measure. The most competent of this art (like the innocuously pleasant white Aryan nude of No. 1 Reich Sculptor Josef Thorak) would not have disgraced a high-class Victorian barroom of the 18905. The worst of it, resplendent with heiling storm troopers and Prussian eagles, would have looked well...