Word: webs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...phenomenon: some turned wringing wet with sweat, others parched so that their skin peeled. He believes that all were relieved when they finally told the truth. Under the glass top of his desk he kept a Walter Scott couplet for all to read and ponder: Oh, what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive...
CENTER OF THE WEB-Katharine Roberts -Crime Club ($2). A Nazi agent, captured on his way to Belgium, yields secrets that enable a British Intelligence officer to penetrate the inner spy circles of Antwerp, where he charms, obfuscates and finally defeats the dreaded Fraulein Doktor. Spy-stuff at its best...
Masslinn (for mass of lint) is a new cotton cloth which looks, feels and launders much like any other cotton cloth, but conceals this fundamental difference: it is made without a spindle or a loom. Cotton web oozing softly from the carding machine is treated with an adhesive (still an unpatented secret), fed back into machinery resembling a paper mill, from which it emerges as a low-cost cotton cloth capable of giving other cotton goods some formidable competition...
...propaganda. German propaganda promises a unified Europe; there is nothing Germany wants less. She treats every captive nation differently: Danes the best, Poles the worst, Polish Jews worst of all. This prevents the captives from having any common ground to stand on. Germany is at the center of the web, but there are few cross-threads from nation to nation...
Suffering themselves from such methods, the people who produced Goethe, Schiller, Beethoven and Einstein are in danger of becoming as brutalized as their captives. For those people who still, thanks to their fortitude or their good fortune, remain outside the Nazi web, the lesson is painfully clear...