Word: account
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mild protest from a French Canadian. Your excellent account of the election in Quebec (TIME, Nov. 6) is marred by two obvious mistakes. You suggest that the fact that France as well as Britain is in the present war played a part. You are wrong. French Canadians voted to go with the rest of the country, and the rest of the country, as well as the French Canadians, are in this war, not for Britain, nor for France, but for freedom...
...ancient saying, sell when the good news is out, might account for these typical examples of recent stockmarket behavior. But certainly the stockmarket which bounded ahead enthusiastically when war commenced, last week showed a phenomenal indifference, if not distaste, for good news...
There has been plenty of political and picturesque U. S. journalism about Japan, but not many solid accounts of Japanese daily living. Suye Mura is such an account: some 300 pages of factual statement. With his wife, who speaks Japanese fluently, John Embree, a University of Hawaii anthropologist, lived a year in Suye Mura, a Japanese rice-farming village, population 1,663. His book tells more about modern Japanese farmers than any volume...
...Bannon, who likes the sea better than Harvard Law School, ships aboard the Gloucester halibut-trawler Susan Dillon for the winter voyage, greenest of a crew of unanimous goldenhearts. Of sailing, the weathers of the winter sea, the fishing itself, physical action and hardship, he gives a rimy, brilliant account. In the best pages of the book Sebastian, lost at sea, rows his dead dory-mate 100 miles to land, his hands frozen to the oars. He and his rescuer, a young woman, are marooned on (and rescued from) a somewhat Melvilleian iceberg which mystically wanders...
...CRIMSON printed a regular four-page morning edition, and within six minutes of the final whistle in the Stadium had an extra on Larz Anderson bridge with the final score and play-by-play account of the game. "Conant Resigns Presidency; Hutchins Named As Successor" was the headline of the Record's bogus issue distributed at Soldiers Field before the game, while "Harlow Resigns Post" was the 72 point banner on the News' effort which was delivered in the dormitories and Houses in the morning...