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...Wild Beast. What happened was this: the ignorant, the primitive and the poverty-stricken believed and defended the miracle. Roused to .a pitch of hope such as seldom touches the earth's hopeless, they became as powerful a fact for the world to reckon with as the vision itself. Franz Werfel builds up a compassionate and ludicrous picture of how state, science and the Church handled this strange wild beast against which no weapons had been invented. Scientists trembled in scorn and terror at the challenge to their royalty over the century. The Church, sternly resolved to distinguish between...
...only the press that Congress had to reckon with; it was the nation...
...Biggest change will be in geography. Pupils will reckon distance not in miles but in flying time, will learn to divide the earth not into eastern and western but northern and southern hemispheres...
Cold, hungry, beaten France, the France that had lost even hope, last week was a world power to reckon with. For in Madagascar France held one of the world's most vital seaposts (see p. 15). In her Navy she held the balance of world naval power...
...fall of Singapore opened the Indian Ocean to the Axis. The escape of three German ships from Brest meant that the German Fleet was something to reckon with. The wavering of Vichy reminded the world that France's Fleet is the balance of the world's seapower. The strength of Field Marshal Rommel in Africa, and Winston Churchill's admission in his speech that "the Mediterranean is closed," showed that the Italian Navy was not exhausted...