Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Knights of the Round Table and the Crusaders have fallen back into distant days, not only distant but prosaic; but these young men are going forth every morning, going forth holding in their hands an instrument of colossal shattering power, of whom it may be said that every morn brought forth a noble chance and every chance brought forth a noble deed. These young men deserve our gratitude, as all brave men who in so many ways and so many occasions are ready and will continue to be ready to give their life and their all to their native land...
...natural that the post-war disillusionment of my own generation should have induced many of us to emphasize the failures of the Versailles settlement and that, by implication, we should have suggested to generations of undergraduates that war is scarcely an instrument designed to achieve the political slogans which accompany it. I have no doubt that many students enlarged this view and came to the conclusion that war is futile and that Europe's troubles...
...still allowed to reply to criticism. When we are accused of schoolboy skepticism, we can affirm our faith in democracy and freedom. We question the efficiency of a means, not the validity of those ends. We can still maintain that our disillusionment is only in war as an instrument of democracy...
Pride of the U. S. Army Air Corps is its secret bombsight, which is accurate for level-flight bombing at altitudes as high as 18,000 feet. Pride of the German Luftwaffe, apparently lacking an instrument of such uncanny accuracy, is a more primitive but certainly effective means of putting air projectiles down on the bull's-eye: dive bombing. Last week, from the Marne to the Scheldt, Nazi airmen in ungainly, single-motored Junkers Ju.87s were on the go from dawn to dusk, dropping out of the dazzling sun in near-vertical dives on docks, factories, ammunition dumps...
...first workout was Poland. Here it was observed that the German 18-day clean sweep was not attributable to new instruments, but to superb coordination and handling of improved old ones. All this winter the Germans were reported to have gone through the most exhaustive rehearsals in central Poland, as well as on the old Czech Maginot Line, to prepare for the Western push. Last week in France it was still that old instrument, the infantry, that was doing most of the work...