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Word: quebecs (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quebec to accept the degree of Doctor of Laws from Laval University went lanky Viscount Halifax, British Ambassador to the U.S. The devout Anglo-Catholic peer found one of the war's fundamental causes in "the continuous erosion" of Christianity in the past century. He noted that every attempt to eradicate Christianity has eventually placed the destroyers in the awkward position of cooking up a substitute. The French invented the Goddess of Reason, the Russians substituted "the abstraction of social collectivity," and - Hitler himself selected the formula of the Nazi faith -"the saving doctrine of the nothingness and insignificance...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Sermons from Laymen | 6/7/1943 | See Source »

...does the infant mortality rate in Quebec compare with that in Bombay...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, May 31, 1943 | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

Combined operations are no new thing, says Recorder Saunders. "The inevitable consequence of sea power," they were practiced by Drake against the Spaniards in 1585, by Lords Essex and Howard against Cadiz in 1596, by Wolfe against Quebec in 1759, by a grandson of the great Duke of Marlborough against the French in 1758. Long in the mind of Britain's Lieut. Colonel D. W. Clarke, today's Commandos were shaped from Clarke's knowledge of guerrilla warfare in Palestine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Commandos | 5/31/1943 | See Source »

...Minister Charles Gavan Power is a wild Quebec Irishman who has made a zooming success of Canada's air training scheme, and does not know how good...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CANADA: Ottawa's Cross | 5/10/1943 | See Source »

There are the 17th/21st Lancers, ancient cavalry converted from well-curried horses to stinking machines, from lances and sabers to clanking General Shermans. The famous 17th was founded in memory of Wolfe's death at Quebec. They were the original "Horse Marines." They charged with the Light Brigade at Balaklava and lost 76% of their number. The 17th Lancers and 21st Lancers were amalgamated in 1922, and they lost their horses in 1938. Their badge is a death's head, their motto is "Or Glory," and they call themselves "the tots," from der Tod, German for death...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A Knocking at the Gate | 5/3/1943 | See Source »

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