Basua Makin, governess of the little sister of Charles II wrote an essay to revive the education of women, arguing that women's activity in wartime showed that they were fit to be educated.
There were wagers on such matters as the longevity of friends and prominent people, fertility of female friends, wartime actions, and political matters.
They had a meaningless chat about the rigors of wartime travel and the dimout in peaceful San Hermano and Hall learned that the Englishman Fielding was in the tall Lonja de Comercio building and very decent.
Not evidence, of course, and even in wartime you couldn't shoot two bastards like them unless you knew more.
Tom Slade With the Colors, A Wartime Boy Scout Story When Uncle Sam "pitches in" to help the Allies in the Great War, Tom's Boy Scout training makes it possible for him to show his patriotism in a way which is of real service to his country.
The boys all recalled now that patriotic custom of the wartime of inviting soldiers from the camp to enjoy a little interval of home life at week ends.
The limited information obtainable in wartime seems to indicate that the German raids had no legitimate objective in view but were undertaken for the mere purpose of frightfulness.
There was every possible reason for this great interest in the United States in wartime aviation.
But before you decide on a trip with a baby, you should realize what a wartime train is like.
More ships, you know; more ship-owners willing to take a chance for wartime profits--and they say Brazil is rather friendly to the German cause.
Why, it's rank nonsense to think of building now at wartime prices.
That was the plan; but in wartime the plans of mice and men are especially subject to change.
The contrast between it and the sleek, fast, streamlined Navy airship of today is almost as striking as that between wartime planes and automobiles and modern ones.
Wartime airships used hydrogen because it was all they had, had to develop what protection they could against fire through construction devices and operating technique.
Wartime ships carried three to five men and a day's fuel.
The wartime craft had its control cars suspended by cables from finger patches cemented to the outside of the bag.
More important is it that the wartime blimp was to a large extent hangar-bound.
Illustration: Principal use for the rigid airship in wartime is as an airplane carrier, with half a dozen planes to extend its reconnaissance range and determine the enemy's position.
Wartime ships had to keep the control car well away from the bag to prevent sparks from igniting the hydrogen gas.
Always he had refused to consent to her going, insisting that France in wartime was no place for an untrained girl.
A man with a German name in British uniform in wartime can't be up to any good.
Failure to recognize that basic fact by a timely adjustment of wartimelegislation brought its inevitable result in peacetime--surpluses, lower prices and lower incomes for our farmers.
Agricultural laws now in effect successfully accomplished their wartime purpose of encouraging maximum production of many crops.
Farmers are not now to be blamed for the mountainous, price-depressing surpluses produced in response to wartime policies and laws that were too long continued.
But my wartime journey was not one of aimless wanderings.
A striking difference between Paris and any Canadian or American city lies in the fact that even in wartime the former employs so many people that a few modern labor-saving devices would release.
Six weeks in England and Scotland during a campaign for wartime prohibition gave me a vivid picture of the motherland and her unrelenting traditions, her customs anchored in the ages, her unyielding might.
A very prominent gentleman, who is a friend of the writer, had been looking forward with some misgivings to his wartime trip abroad.
Poictesme had been living for too long on the leavings of wartime production; too few people had bothered learning how to produce anything.
As for Travis's statement, the old general had been bound by a wartime oath of secrecy to deny Merlin's existence.
Our experience will enable us during the coming year to improve the necessary mechanisms ofwartime economic controls, and to simplify administrative procedures.
To change a whole nation from a basis of peacetime production of implements of peace to a basis of wartime production of implements of war is no small task.
One cannot drive an ambulance at the front in wartime without having more or less trouble, as you know, and I cannot understand why so much should have been made of this accident by my superior.
A man who could step from department store life into the perilous life of a wartime balloonist was a man!
A German, Russian or Japanese bureaucrat would have gone mad in the wartime mazes of the Federal system; a Chinese would probably have felt very much at home, but would have polished up the titles and honorifics a little.
Radio broadcasts and leaflets even in wartime only rarely should promote hatred.
With the diversion of men to fighting operations the percentage of women in the home population rises and in wartime it may become 60% or 70%.
Many wartimechanges carry on, of course; but they rarely comprise, by the standards of the people concerned, improvements.
This bad parallel was responsible for much of the inept American propaganda overseas in the early part of the war; some of our propagandists had a fundamental misconception of the nature of wartime propaganda.
In wartime old leaders remain and new ones come in.
The world would be a more inspiring place in which to dwell if people generally lived up to the wartime standards they impose on themselves.
Standing By and Making Do: Women inWartime Los Alamos.
The wartime Navy had been composed overwhelmingly of reservists and inductees, and shortly after V-J day the Navy announced plans for the orderly separation of all reservists by September 1946.
In short, practices with respect to Negroes were "wasteful, deleterious to military effectiveness and lacking in wartime application.
Nichols supports his affectionate portrait of Sargent, who died shortly after the war, with interviews of many wartime officials who worked in the Bureau of Naval Personnel with Sargent.
The paper declared that veterans remembered their wartime experiences and were convinced that the same distasteful practices would be continued after the war.
A statute of 1915, however, provided that during wartime or "whenever the President may so direct" the Coast Guard would operate as part of the Navy, subject to the orders of the Secretary of the Navy.
The Army, he concluded, should learn from its wartime experience the deleterious effect of segregation on motivation and ultimately on performance.
He lived up to the letter of the Army's regulations, consistently supporting measures to eliminate overt discrimination in the wartime Army.
They preferred to draw other lessons from the corps' wartime experience.
Almost without exception, Negroes in the Navy's general service were reservists, products of wartime volunteer enlistment or the draft.
The cause of this striking rise in black strength was the large number of Negroes among wartime enlistments.
Parrish, thewartime commander at Tuskegee, explained that the principal reason for this restriction was the prevailing fear of social conflict.
For during wartime the factories must run, and the autocratic integration which the Fuel Administration accomplished created a seeming abundance by keeping the factory wheels of at least the essential industries turning.
That larger objective of reconverting wartime America to a peacetime basis is one for which your government is laying plans to be submitted to the Congress for action.
The responsibilities of the President in wartime to protect the nation are very grave.
Nobody knows better than farmers the disastrous effects of wartime inflationary booms, and postwar deflationary panics.
By the same token--a worker here at home may not like the driving, wartimeconditions under which he has to work and live.
At first such contacts, especially under wartime conditions, would only intensify provincial sentiment and mistrust of strangers, but gradually this influence began to make for a new national consciousness.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wartime" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: attack; battle; belligerence; bloodshed; combat; fighting; hostilities; war; warring; wartime
