Word: novelized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vivid description of the most ingenious of the methods employed by the British Admiralty to combat the submarine menace. The Q boats, merchant vessels armed with concealed guns and making every effort to be torpedoed, decoyed twelve German submarines to destruction. As commander of the first of these novel units in the British Navy and later of several others. Admiral Campbell accounted for four of the enemy's deadly underwater crafts, which in April 1917 were so depleting British tonnage that high Admiralty officials saw unconditional surrender within three months staring them in the face. For heroism in action...
...rttemberg whose virginal daughter is driven to suicide by the approaches of a knavish Duke, and who subsequently causes the Duke's downfall by way of atonement, seems like mechanical puppetry. It is an adaptation by Ashley Dukes of episodes from Lion Feuchtwanger's potent novel Power (Jud Suss) which is extolled by its readers as the rich, devious history of a master of aggrandizement, a luxurious pageant of 18th Century Swabia, teeming with personalities. Actor Maurice Moscovitch, once famed in Manhattan's Yiddish theatres and more recently in London, has a few moments over the bier...
Henri-Marie Beyle, who called himself, among other pseudonyms, Baron de Stendhal-sensualist, cynic, soldier, exile, diplomat, author-wrote his first novel at 44 and said of himself: "Je serai compris ners 1900 [I shall be understood about...
...article again lays stress on intelligent preparation by the student during his college career for the field in which he is interested. To a large group there is a novel aspect in the notion that a high scholastic standing is more representative of the prospective job-holder's ability, so far as corporation executives are concerned, than a list of reference numbers after his name in the Harvard Register...
...difficult at first for the undergraduate to place himself in one of the given categories, but with a little thought he will doubtless be able to squeeze in somewhere: and the resulting and novel sensation of normality will surely prove an ample reward...