Word: means
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...have always preferred playing ghosts to ringing doorbells," one student exclaimed amid his weird incantations. "Tipping garbage cans is so messy. We prefer singing to the spirits of my ancestor's class of 1739." The Robinson Hall haunters said they didn't mean liquid spirits...
Afterward, the Rev. Mr. Wilson confessed that he had wondered as he recited the prayer, whether its reference to "enemies" would be taken to mean the King's enemies in war. He hoped not, said Dr. Wilson; he had read a peacetime prayer denoting spiritual, moral and material obstacles to Christian faith. The English Church has more militant prayers for victory...
...less attractive characteristics of the German are his inability either to see any side of a question except his own, or to understand the meaning of moderation. . . . Herr Hitler could see no mean between rendering the Czechs innocuous as a potential enemy and destroying their liberty as an independent people. There is some surprising reason to believe that Herr Hitler himself was disagreeably and literally astonished at the reaction in Britain and the world generally, which was provoked by the occupation of Prague and his breach of faith with Mr. Chamberlain. But while he may have realised his tactical mistake...
...desire for friendship with England. ... I augured the worst from the fact that he was in a position at such a moment to give me so much of his time. . . . He could scarcely have afforded at such a moment to spare time in conversation if it did not mean that everything down to the last detail was now ready for action...
...taken an apartment in Brooklyn and intended to stay. Bony-faced, eager, un-slicked, Auden told a reporter that he saw one hopeful prospect from the "muddle" in Europe; a general realization that violent revolution is as impotent as violent war. Said he: "In America nationalism doesn't mean anything; there are only human beings. That's how the future must...