Word: imperiale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thiman was graduated by the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London, England, in 1928. In 1930 he studied at the University of Grass, Austria, leaving after a year to join the faculty of the California Institute of Technology as an instructor in biochemistry and later in bacteriology.
Full of authority in a field command, he was no diplomat: he got lost in the jungles of Chinese and British high imperial policy. Chiang asked for his recall, and President Roosevelt consented.
It was on the beach near Naharia that I saw the rusted and rotting hulk of a tiny craft that had brought a few hundred "unauthorized" immigrants to Palestine. Named after Hannah Szenesh, this boat escaped detection by His Majesty's Imperial Navy, and was able to unload its human...
Tucked into the Journal's 16,000-word chronicle of medicine-show journalism were many carefully chosen glimpses of the Chief. But none showed him as his early opposition had seen him (see cut). There was his election to Congress in 1903 (but, naturally, no mention of his ill...
By V-E day or soon after, he argues, the British were able to persuade U.S. "reactionaries" in the State Department and elsewhere to back British imperial interests against Russia. The Soviets became alarmed and rang down the Iron Curtain. Thinks Elliott: the "only two nations whose security interests clash...