Word: strength
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...detachment of neutral news correspondents, including five Americans, toured Germany last week from Aachen to Kaiserslautern, guided by German officers who happily, confidently showed them the wonders of the Westwall. The correspondents wrote marveling descriptions of the Wall's depth, complexity and strength; its clever tricks of camouflage; murderous traps for tanks and infantry; ponderous guns for long-range punishment of the Allies. "The Westwall will never be finished, just as a forest never ceases to grow," they quoted one general as saying. They gave the net impression that the Wall was, if not precisely impregnable, so immensely flexible...
...often asserted that a war of 'limited liability' is impossible, and also that to enter upon war with any idea of conserving our strength is to invite defeat. The first assertion is unhistorical; the second unpractical. We conducted all our wars until the last on the policy of profiting by our sea-moat and seapower to limit our liability . . . and had a sustained run of success in, and after, them that no other modern nation has known...
Another type of bargain-hunting centred about movie companies which sold off on the outbreak of war because they depend on belligerents for as high as 40% of their gross from pictures. Last week, shrewd buying was anticipating new strength in movies on an offsetting increase in U. S. moviehouse attendance...
ADAM, Jacob Epstein's recent statue, was subjected to a barrage of mixed criticism when first presented before the public. The piece shocked many people because of its virile display of masculine strength which was convicted by the sculptor in no uncertain artistic terms...
...devote many finely printed pages to a discussion of the statue, a discussion which would include Epstein's purpose, the complexity of various contemporary movements in sculpture, and a searching investigation of many other works of art which have been similarly received when first exhibited. Still the concentrated strength embodied in ADAM is penetrating enough to cause even the most aesthetically lethargic individual in the world to sit back and ponder...