Word: tragical
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Death There Is None," the story of the tragic fate of ten girls in a Nazi concentration camp, will be presented by a group of Harvard and Radcliffe students next Monday, May 3, at Cantabridgia Hall in Cambridge for the benefit of the United Nations War Relief...
With every farmer, holding up a moistened finger to the spring winds, were the hopes of the nation. In 1943, year of food shortages, a late freeze would be tragic, a long drought disastrous. The weather, long the biggest news in the billion acres of U.S. farm country, was now full of meaning for the most sheltered city dweller...
...Columbia's 1936 recording, when the Vienna Philharmonic was still at its pre-Nazi best. Mahler's symphonic setting of the verses of Li Tai Po and other Chinese immortals remains one of the few great musical compositions of the 20th Century, one of the most tragic works in all musical literature...
...rubber planters, civil servants and clerks of Malaya formed a sort of Home Guard and went out into the jungle, where few escaped death or capture. They flew ancient pleasure and training planes against Japanese Zeros. The regular battalions of British, Indian, Gurkha and Australian troops fought with tragic bravery. Weller's account of these men in action is also a brilliant story of Japanese fighting methods...
Brotherhood Is Scarce. Through both these books, warning steadily of tragic postwar possibilities, runs the theme of international suspicions and hatreds. Mutual dislike was a feature common to the letters Graebner found on Austrian, Ba varian and Prussian soldiers. Lack of a second front, says Graebner, has turned many Russians against Britain and America. Occupied Persia fears Russia, is "sick and tired" of the British, accepts Americans enthusiastically only, perhaps, because they are "new." Graebner believes that American popularity is dwindling in Trinidad, South America and the Middle East as a result of violent "bad behavior" on the part...