Word: soldierism
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...University of California by Ernest Orlando Lawrence's giant new cyclotron. This 225-ton machine, whose operators shield themselves by water-tank barricades, can kill white mice and destroy cancer cells at popgun range. Installed in a front-line trench it would have less effect on an enemy soldier at 50 feet than one well-aimed rifle bullet...
Died. Colonel Charles Glenn Collins. 59, Scottish soldier of fortune; in Vicksburg, Miss. His career included action in South Africa with the British Army, marriage with one U. S. heiress and three foiled elopements with another (the fourth succeeded), World War decoration by England, France and Canada, extradition in 1923 to India to stand trial for an $18,000 jewelry fraud (later acquitted), eventual domestication with a third wife in Mississippi...
Lord of the Lightning, which in less than three weeks had struck down a nation of 34,000,000 people, defended by an Army of 2,000,000, was a middleaged, middle-sized, good-looking soldier who was fighting his first war. As befitted the director of such forces as he commanded, he had no permanent headquarters, but was first in one place, then in another. He had supervised the advance of the East Prussian divisions which, in the first days of the war, drove straight for Warsaw, only to be held up momentarily at Pultusk and Plonsk. These obstacles...
...angels stand in the silent darkness-angels with dim eyes and fiery swords." He wakes to find himself covered with snow, and a child runs up crying that he is a snowman. Thinks he: "And you'll grow up, and you'll remember the soldier. . . . Your children will tell you that this soldier was a common murderer -but don't revile him. Just think, how could he help himself? He was a child of his time...
...passionately anxious to maintain control over South West Africa. They would rather see the world's richest gold and diamond mines, the Rand and Kimberley, exploited by Britain than raped by Germany. The Boer leader who gets on best with Britain is white-bearded old Jan Christiaan Smuts, soldier of the Boer and World Wars, national hero and ex-Prime Minister...