Word: rememberable
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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This is not surprising. Scholars and intellectuals generally have a peculiar propensity for going mad in war-time. Those of us who lived through the last war remember the disgraceful spectacle of learned men in all the belligerent countries of 1914-18 sustaining and idealizing a war which we now...
It would be an interesting subject for a Ph.D. thesis--why professors go mad in war. Another thesis might be written on why students keep sane. In this war, at least, you boys have done just that. While the nation has been going crazy, you have remained calm. While the...
Heroism joined hands with horror through the long night of waiting. One ten-year-old boy encouraged a dying nurse, cradling her head in his arms as he reassured her: "I can see boats, nurse. It won't be long now-everything will be all right." Piped a 13...
But many British subjects, and many more U. S. citizens, fear that something of this sort may come about without their knowing it. Britons, particularly, remember that in the last days of the French Republic their Government offered union to France without consulting Parliament (TIME, June 24). Last week in...
To avoid this meaning future we are willing to go far in helping England to win this war. Our national policy today may be summed up as "all aid to England short of war." Yet this is a meaningless slogan, because "aid" can merge imperceptibly into "war." Many of us...