Word: remnant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...tutorial system, almost by definition, depends on intense interest both from faculty and students. The first is often watered by lack of good men as tutors, small interest by certain Departments, and even a remnant among some professors that the system is new-fangled and a time-waster. Young instructors feel often that they are wasting time on tutorial which might better be given to their own research and scholarly work toward promotion. On the other hand, student interest has not always been overwhelming; dull sessions have discouraged work, and the absence of any sanctions has permitted laxity. Many...
...Rommel's retreat to Tunisia was, or merely chaotic. The Russians had two chances of making it chaotic-they could drive south through Stalin to the Sea of Azov, pocketing the routed defenders of Rostov, and west from Lozovaya to the Dnieper bend at Dniepropetrovsk, cutting the Caucasian remnant and Crimean garrisons off from convenient retreat by rail or good roads...
...Imperial German flag, a remnant of Prince Albert's visit to Harvard during President Eliot's administration, is also in the collection. On coming across this, Mr. Conally remarked, "I should spit on this damn thing...
...loss of the last remnant of African empire squashed Mussolini's already crawling prestige. For "El Piccolo," King Vittorio Emanuele, who docilely hitched his destiny to Mussolini's bombast, it meant that he could no longer call himself "King-Emperor...
...fight. Cairo reported that ten Italian generals and some 30,000 other Axis captives had already reached the British Army's rear. Other thousands, not slain or wounded, still wandered in the desert. Rommel might have some 20,000 effectives left, plus a few Italian reserve divisions, a remnant of his original force, but still the nucleus of an army if it was permitted time and opportunity to reform...