Word: westerners
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Nazis remain in power long without their foreign "diversion"? 2) When the Führer threatens invasion is he bluffing or prepared to wage war? Another question was virtually settled in the affirmative: If war does come, Germany will again have to fight both on eastern and western fronts...
...official invitation to the "forbidden city" of Lhasa, his novitiate in the big monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden, with monk populations from 5,000 to 10,000. The climax is, of course, the fussy, interminable ceremony at which he became a full-fledged Lama, a Western reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan saint. For readers who picture Tibet from James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Lama Bernard's account should be an eye-opener...
...book will not make many Western converts, but the Yoga fortitude he showed is unquestionable. Ceremonials in the windowless temple room, lit with thousands of butter lamps, frequently lasted from sunrise to sunset, with 10,000 monks repeating one chant up to 108,000 times. Author Bernard braved the black chamber of horrors filled with fiendish and erotic idols, kept his head during four days of solitary confinement in a rock cave...
...landscapes and the latest, largest picture on view, A Piece of My World (see cut). This one harked back to the line drawings the artist made at 23, when he was a German pacifist who had been condemned to death but let off with front-line service on the Western Front. It was a grey and dirt-colored allegory of war which, like the Thirty Years War in Europe (1618-48), lasted so long that men forgot, in disease, starvation and insanity, what they were fighting for. The witlings who stumble to the attack in A Piece of My World...
...crashed in a wooded ravine. From the flattened fuselage, stretched out like a beached and broken whale not far from where her wing and engine lay, workmen took the bodies of three Boeing pilots, the chief test pilot of Transcontinental & Western Air, four Boeing office and shop employes and two Hollanders who had been thinking of buying Stratoliners for Dutch airlines...