Word: morale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Revolution Put Down. This war was a revolution against the moral basis of civilization. It was conceived by the Nazis in conscious contempt for the life, dignity and freedom of individual man and deliberately prosecuted by means of slavery, starvation and the mass destruction of noncombatants' lives. It was a revolution against the human soul...
...civilized world, in spite of its unpreparedness, mental, moral and physical, in spite of its lack of understanding and its self-deceptions, its false pride and petty contentions, had finally risen and destroyed its attackers. The price was the destruction of the greater part of Europe's material heritage, the cutting short of several million lives, the maiming of many millions more...
...conference (TIME, May 7) had in fact been a triumph for Molotov, Stettinius' forthright support of Argentina, said they, unnecessarily pointed up the disproportionate voting strength of the U.S.'s noisy Latin American bloc, gave Molotov a brilliantly used opportunity to pose as the conference's moral spokesman in opposing the Argentine jingoes, and generally cost the U.S. more than it gained...
...thrown into a magic setting with an ugly girl, and in each other they gradually find an escape from the world neither can hear to face. In their enchanted cottage, she appears beautiful, and to her, he is no longer disfigured. The illusion must meet its test when their moral courage comes inevitably into contact with the world of reality...
...degenerative diseases is not surprising: they are common diseases of old age. But doctors are convinced that, given as much money as has been spent for research in the war against germs, they could do something about physical degeneration too. Chicago's Dr. Herman L. Kretschmer drew a moral in the Journal of the American Medical Association: "Prevention of chronic [degenerative] illness begins with . . . proper personal hygiene, right living and suitable diet ... an annual physical examination...