Word: war-torn
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...Europe descended from the mountains of animosity from which they have long been accustomed to glare at one another, went down the rugged mountain paths of doubt, crossed the bog of misgivings and set foot on the great, wide road that leads to a true economic resettlement of the War-torn Continent...
...Stadium gridiron will again take on the war-torn and watery appearance of the Harvard-Yale football game last fall when Ground-keeper Enright and his squad of men lay out today the course for the 1500-metre steeplechase which will be a feature of the Olympic tryouts in the Stadium on Saturday...
...article on International sport, Captain Percy Redfern Creed has expressed in words the unarticulated and perhaps unconscious theory behind every enterprise which brings different nationalities together on the athletic field. He has gone even further, by proposing to create from sport the cement with which the war-torn peoples of the world may again be bound together in mutual respect and confidence...
...interview on the Polish situation from Professor Robert H. Lord. Most of America's foremost representatives in Europe during the past year or so the men who were on the inside have returned to their native shores and have maintained a hush-like silence on the conditions in the war-torn regions. As a consequence, we have been flooded with books and articles from those who were in Europe, but on the outside. Only partially informed, often misinformed, these gentlemen have done more harm than good. Charges without foundation have found wide credence everywhere in America. As an instance...
...war-torn regions fill the President with horror;" so cries the Boston Herald in an emotional headline. The statement, of course, is reasonable enough. We might expect that any normal man on viewing the devastation of the most destructive war in history would experience an emotion something akin to horror. Mr. Wilson, in spite of his six years in the presidency, is yet normal and there is nothing sensational in his feeling very much as other...