Word: deeper
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...supreme tragedy of the present epoch is the fact that the friends of democracy in many lands . . . have failed to present to their children a great and ennobling goal. . . . The apparent enthusiasm and loyalty of youth in totalitarian states are not simply the products of regimentation and propaganda. Their deeper source is found in the fact that these systems have given youth work...
...Port Sudan, Kassala is the eastern gateway (Khartoum the western) for the Sudan's rich cotton plantations. It commands the valley of the Atbara River, a Nile tributary down which an army would move to strike at Egypt and Suez from the south. Last week the Italians struck deeper into the Sudan from Kassala, bombing a station near Khartoum, and British equipment assembled for a counterattack...
Because the FORTUNE Poll forecast the 1936 popular vote within 2%, because New Dealers have long taken President Roosevelt's political invincibility for granted, poll findings made a deeper impression in Washington than elsewhere in the U. S. New Dealers solaced themselves with the belief that Wendell Willkie had reached the crest of his wave, would now decline. The FORTUNE Survey itself pointed out-"A public whose preferences are as fluid as the comparison of these returns indicates may react against the Republican candidate after the first delighted surprise at his nomination has worn off. And Willkie...
Weygand had his men disposed flexibly in depth-the approved "accordion" pattern of defense against mechanized power. Behind the front line were carefully camouflaged batteries of anti-tank and heavy machine guns, spaced fairly widely down the valley and highway pathways of assault. Successive, deeper rows of similar weapons were spaced more & more closely until they were backed finally by batteries of 75-mm. field guns, weapons able to knock out heaviest tanks when fired pointblank. The defense plan was to let heavy tanks push back into this final network, to have the advance units destroy motorcycles, armored cars, troop...
From lands of palm and pine, from a people whose boast it had once been that the sun never set on it, rose a deeper prayer than Kipling's "Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet." The prayer of tight-lipped men & women throughout Britain's empire was to keep the sun from setting...