Word: harsher
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Poles accused as "snipers" at the German Army were rounded up for even harsher treatment than the tens of thousands of Polish prisoners who were being shipped off constantly to work in Germany, mostly on farms but also in unskilled factory jobs where it would be difficult for them to commit acts of sabotage. They were promised pay at 60% of prevailing German wage scales, and Nazi authorities rushed about trying to get their ragged prisoners-many Polish soldiers had thrown away their uniforms-adequate clothes, shoes and overcoats for the winter rains were beginning, epidemics were feared...
...finds himself commonly tell him to "Forget everything the Party taught you and remember you are a dog of a swine like the rest of these raw recruits!" If the Nazi has been an officer in the political Storm Troops, the Army sergeants up to now have been even harsher in knocking the conceit out of him. This attitude, raised from the brutality of a sergeant to the suavity of a general, was what Dictator Hitler encountered last week from General von Fritsch. and in Berlin it was believed that the generals urged...
Planned and produced to earn the plaudits of those who shiver with ecstasy at mere mention of the word "Broadway," "Broadway Melody of 1938," current University offering, may draw the harsher criticism of those who want something more than a hodge-podge even in their musicals...
Rear Admiral Osamu Sato, the highest Japanese Naval official in China who is stationed there as naval attaché, divulged to correspondents that the Japanese Government is now pressing the Chinese Government to accept "certain mild general principles" which are actually harsher than Japan's notorious Twenty-One Demands of 1915. Under the first "mild" principle, each Chinese Government army campaigning against Chinese Communists in the interminable civil wars and skirmishes must have with it a Japanese army of equal numbers. Under the second "mild" principle, each official of the Chinese Government, including those of its defense forces...
...Deal, In sophisticated circles the main objective of Pierre ("Honest Broker") Laval last week was seen to be to halt the relentless march of League of Nations committees toward harsher & harsher Sanctions and to tie a knot in the banner of British idealism which has been unfurled at Geneva by handsome young Captain Anthony Eden. More specifically M. Laval was out to prevent the League from applying the crucial oil Sanction scheduled for last week. Released with the formal imprimatur of Britain and France, The Deal accomplished this initial purpose of abruptly halting for the first time the march toward...