Word: system
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Best Allied bet seemed to be the destruction of the vast supply system needed to feed and munition the 1,000,000-odd men the Germans will have within and behind the Siegfried Position. This is the bombers' job. That done, infantry could then be given a chance to do what skillful infantry has done since time immemorial: take up terrain favorable to it and unfavorable to the enemy-on ridges, slopes, behind spurs-and when the counter-attackers uncoil their spring, let them have it. A bath of dragon's blood made the hero Siegfried invulnerable except...
Directors of the Whitney Museum did not know whether they were more tickled over their sensational new indirect lighting system, their four new rooms, a new central staircase and widened halls, or the 118 paintings, 53 pieces of sculpture, 31 water colors, 29 drawings and 57 prints by 20th Century American artists. Dawdling gallerygoers, who could scarcely tell when night fell as the concealed lights filled the rooms with an almost perfect synthetic daylight, were tickled with everything. They got a familiar pleasure from such standard brands as George Luks's gamey Mrs. Gamley, George Bellows' Dempsey...
...help readers distinguish between war news and war propaganda last week Manchester Boddy's enterprising Los Angeles Daily News and Evening News adopted a system of labeling European dispatches. The Daily News used alphabetical symbols. OP stood for "official propaganda," SA meant "seems authentic," "V" meant "verified." Over foreign cables in the Evening News were drawings of a key bearing the same words written...
...policy of the Government in the present War? At first we were told this was a war to save Poland. Now we are told that it's a war to destroy Hitlerism. In plain language . . . it's a war to change by force the political system of another country...
...question mark that may decide von Horvath's insight as a novelist of his time: How prophetic is the lance-corporal's gradual disillusionment with the Nazi creed? First crack in his faith comes during an undeclared war on "a weak, incompetent nation, with a deplorable system of government." Wounded and permanently disabled while trying to save his captain under machine-gun fire, he discovers that the captain deliberately committed suicide in preference to looting, shooting prisoners, bombing women, children, wounded. When Nazi indifference to individuals robs him of a girl, his mind is coldly, bitterly lucid: murder...