Word: knowed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...still marched and countermarched in Germany on "routine" maneuvers. They were enough to keep Poland, France and Great Britain on edge. Poland showed signs of beginning to feel the economic strain of mobilization, but France and Britain let the Nazi Führer know that they were on to his game and that they could afford to hold out longer than he could...
...avail against France. We have taken what military measures we consider necessary. We are not thinking of reducing but rather of increasing them. . . . Whatever may be the diversity and complexity of international problems, there is in reality only one issue in Europe today-thatof domination or collaboration. . . . We know what we must defend-our fatherland and our liberties, our beliefs, and our ideals of human dignity...
...abroad, the German business class cried weakly for a directing savior. In their happiest times they had always had one. The immediately pre-Hitler years were the years of the phenomenon of "tired capitalism"; the German cartelized business structure, which was inextricably merged with five big banks, did not know the rules of intramural competition. Then came the first Nazi experiments with a rigidly controlled system, with businessmen retained as managers in their own plants, but with the Government allocating raw materials, dictating wages and prices and limiting and forcing new investment in accordance with Nazi conceptions of national welfare...
...grinning good-naturedly: "Character is what counts. ... If it comes to a choice between character and exceptional voice, I choose character. . . . The boy who whistles at his work. The girl who sings as she wipes the dishes. These people make good choir material. . . . How much, or how little, they know about music doesn't matter much...
...Quite recently I talked to a newspaper friend of mine who is now a priest. I said to him that I wanted to know if there was anything in Catholicism which stood in the way of any person who believed in political and economic progressivism. And my friend smiled and answered: 'Don't you realize that you're a little naïve, Heywood? You like to call yourself a radical, but the doctrines of the Church to which I belong imply so many deep changes in human relationship that when they are accomplished-and they will...