Word: enigma
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...facts and statements of Nazi leaders to date, there is a distinct possibility that if Germany wins in Europe she will attempt an invasion of this hemisphere. How long it will take her to reach this point can only be speculation, but this is the root of the conscription enigma. It does not seem, despite Nazi advances and the possibility that, if victorious, Germany would control shipbuilding facilities six times as great as our own, perhaps the British navy, that we would not have adequate time to prepare then. Furthermore, a Nazi victory over France and England is still...
...Centennial biography of the great tragic English novelist, which traces the originals of Hardy's Wessex characters. Hardy of Wessex offers an excellent dossier on Hardy's weaknesses-his melodramatics, re-use of plots, gnarled syntax, dullnesses-gives only a fuzzy clue to the central Hardy enigma: How, out of his sardonic imagination and crabbed style, could come scenes so vivid, characters so memorable...
...most undergraduates the Littauer Center, the huge no classic building known popularly as the "while elephant" which stands at the intersection of Kirkland Street and Massachusetts Avenue, is an enigma and a mystery...