Word: powerfulness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...lacking both experience and the climax runner who is a prime essential to Greasy Neale's plan of attack. Running and passing will be divided between Hovey Seymour and Fred Burr. Seymour was the captain and standout player of last year's unusually inferior Freshman team. He has both power and speed, but whether he has the deceptive change of pace of a first class ball-carrier remains to be seen, Burr is a letterman, passes and runs well, but never really got under way last fall...
...fitting eulogy of a glorious ruling House whose power is no more, comes Bertita Harding's Imperial Twilight, a stirring account of the lives of Karl and Zita of Hapsburg. Purposely avoiding more than a bare outline of the historical and political background, the author focuses almost her sole attention on the ill starred war-time rulers, struggling valiantly to hold together a tottering empire, whose collapse the outbreak of that first world conflagration rendered inevitable...
...almost offhand manner, the author brings up the question of the rights of national minorities, like the Croats and Ruthenians. With only superficial analysis, she baldly asserts that the principle of national self-determination cannot be realized in Central Europe. There must be at all times a Great Power to rule this heterogeneous mass of peoples who, if allowed to govern themselves, constitute an ever-present danger to the peace of Europe. And disposing of these absorbing problems with such vague generalizations, Miss Harding jerks the reader abruptly away from any further discussion and continues with her biographical narrative...
...very many observers would label this view naive to say the least. They would hear in the booming guns along the Saar merely the clash of rival imperialisms. And they would see in Mr. Chamberlain's devious line of march from appeasement to war merely a crass game of power politics gone beyond his control. But Mr. Greene might be left to his charitable thoughts were it not for their alarming implications. For if they are true, is it not imperative that America once more go to war for the defense of human liberties and of democracy...
...course, America would look sorrowfully on any sort of German victory, and she should do what is in her power--short of war--to ensure an opposite result. Any Nazi success means an upsurge of this political and social creed, which would certainly be felt in the United States. But Mr. Greene has little faith in the virility of democracy and in American integrity if he considers this an overwhelming threat. And surely he will not proceed to the ridiculous argument of actual Nazi aggression on American soil...