Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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America is now at peace partly because war is unstrategic at the moment, partly because the people fear that war will wreck the country. If we were to renounce the latter reason, and base our non-belligerency on strategy alone, as President Conant would have us do, our aid to Britain would not increase any faster than it is now. Then why is this decision essential to a defeat of the Axis at the present time...
...grim and determined business, but when nations which believe in war and armed force as the supreme attributes of national life, brutally attempt to destroy or enslave nations which reject that belief, the latter have no alternative but resistance. If that resistance stirs up unedifying emotions, the same thing could be said of the feelings aroused in the innocent victims of any catastrophe--not only the emotions of fear and terror, but even those of exalted heroism, which, however admirable, inevitably disturb the desirable tranquility of normal life...
...tortoise which supports the vertical stone occupies a very important but seemingly vague place in Chinese mythology. Sometimes it has been used as a cosmic emblem and sometimes as a symbol of uncleanliness, lack of chastity. Standing, as it does, between Boylston and Widener, it can hardly symbolize the latter. The inscription on the stone tablet is an expression of the donor's high regard for Harvard; it praises education, peace, and good will...
...purely spontancous, and consequently relaxed. Now this word "relaxed," I realize, has become a standing joke around these parts, yet it's the only way to describe how Count Basic's orchestra plays, because it constitutes the difference between Basic and bands of the Glenn Miller type. The latter aren't relaxed, and they just don't swing that's all there...
...craft through and over the nets and booms of the harbor, removed one of the war heads and attached it to the side of the battleship Viribus Unitis, pride of the Austrian Navy. The other war head they cut adrift in the tideway. The former sank Viribus Unitis, the latter drifted against and blew up the battleship Wien...