Word: pursuits
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...meant for the Germans was compactly set down in Anthony Martienssen's Hitler and His Admirals, written from captured Nazi records. One book seemed certain to become a minor classic of its kind: British Captain Russell Grenfell's The Bismarck Episode, a terse description of the pursuit and destruction of the mighty German battleship in the greatest sea hunt in naval history. Of the books of personal war experiences, two were outstanding: Norwegian Odd Nansen's From Day to Day, a grim report, set down with dignity, of what he saw as a prisoner in various German...
...Unfortunately, ratcatching also served to nourish the largest bee that ever buzzed in Charles Waterton's bonnet, i.e., his conviction that the common brown rat had been introduced to England by Protestant King George I. Thenceforth, the exterminating of the "Hanoverian rat" furnished the Squire with a pursuit that at first threatened to become his entire vocation...
...battle of Facts v. Ideas, Educator Hutchins had taken the side of ideas. This did not mean that he rejected facts. This week he marked his 20th anniversary at Chicago, the university had reached a height in science (i.e., the pursuit of facts) such as it had never achieved before. But Hutchins thoroughly intended that students at Chicago would be equipped to make a sound search for the truth about the facts...
...with submarines, airplanes, and the new pursuit of electronic miracles, the science of destruction was in full career, equipped with virtually every basic modern technique "except atomic energy...
...determined defense, as the sole means of bringing victory over a foe of equal or comparable strength, was a delusion, and not worth the extreme cost and effort it entailed . . . [In the future] no fleets of bombers will proceed unmolested against any enemy that can bring properly equipped jet pursuit ships against them in numbers, aided by effective ground radar, and equipped with rockets or guided air-to-air missiles armed with proximity fuzes . . . The days of mass bombing may be approaching their...