Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...laboratory sessions" following the review the inspector appeared most interested. There was the usual trouble among the harnessing group, commanded by Captain Joseph Franklin '38, when "Benny," toughest horse in the unit, acted up upon having his clinch tightened. For a while it looked rather dark for harnesser William Murray...
Realizing that here we are following where other universities have already made notable progress, John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, stated that "our contribution is to offer a new method rather than to answer a new need...
...aspects of the book is the author's treatment of Mussolini and Hitler. The absolute authority of Il Duce in Italy is emphatically denied. The power of the royalist elements, the Vatican, and the army under Badoglio are so strongly emphasized that poor Benito appears to be merely a rather weak prime minister. Here, it seems, Mr. Young has jumped overboard trying to prove his case. As for Hitler, it is claimed that he was deified by the German people when Hindenburg was no longer adequate as a god. Unity in the Reich is a myth; Germany today...
This book is not a modern example of learned historical writing; rather it is written to be interesting and understandable to the general newspaper public. In this respect it succeeds admirably, but as such it sometimes tends toward sensationalism and over-simplification. Its main contribution, however, is that it succeeds in clarifying the recent events and reveals the fundamental issues over which each country is most concerned...
...produce only one at a time. Il Duce appears again, as one of the "Four Little Angels of Peace," the others being Hitler, Chamberlain, and an anonymous Jap. They all demonstrate their benevolence by treacherously and amusingly destroying one another. There is a denunciation of war, carried out by rather obscure ballet, and jibes are distributed to the Vassar girl who finds a job at Macy's, the upper crust on a slumming party, the 100 percent American, and the Federal Theatre, with its repressions and inhibitions, all of which are quite effective except the last, which drags. The most...