Word: rather
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...northeast, that a hot fight ensued at Molodeczno, rail junction between Wilno and Minsk. Elsewhere opposition was nominal or minus. Refugees over the Rumanian border described the new invaders as traveling peaceably along the same Ukrainian roads as the fugitive Poles. It was a mass movement of occupation rather than of conquest, although performed the same way as the crashing German onslaught-mechanized forces piercing far ahead, infantry on slower trucks bringing up the rear. Conjunction of the west-moving Russian horde with the east-flowing Germans was awaited tensely. Would they embrace each other? Or would they quarrel over...
...they withdrew toward their West-wall, the Germans razed whole villages rather than leave shelter for the Allies. They were careful to fill in cellars...
...clear that modern boyhoods are no match for his, but he is far from thinking that modern youngsters are going to the dogs. The wiry 89-year-old declares his favorite remark applies as well to the present generation as to any of its predecessors: "I'd rather be an American boy," says old Dan Beard, "than President of the United States, or anything else in the world...
...although Author Huxley views the natives' misfortunes with sympathy, her sympathy with the whites makes Red Strangers a tragi-comedy rather than a tragedy. The final scene (after two generations of British rule): A young Kikuyu farmer takes his first ride in a plane, trudges boastfully home, pleased with himself and the white bwana, determined to name his forthcoming child Aeroplane...
...primary attitude of the college generation of today is, in a way, altered from that of its 1914 predecessor. So Mr. MacLeish tells us. We do not look upon this conflagration as a "sea at the end of time." Rather we look upon it as the prelude to a renewed and vigorous attack on the many problems of advancing civilization. From our point of view, this is a war to continue civilization. It becomes of the utmost necessity, thus, that once the war is over, we have many well-educated men in a position to help in building...