Word: accountings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Eivind Berggrav was elevated to the diocese of Oslo, the primacy of Norway. Already widely known at home as editor of the magazine Kirke og Kultur (Church and Culture) and writer of a number of religious books in addition to the best-selling Spenningèns Land (an account of his life in the Arctic), he soon achieved world fame in the Universal Church movement. In 1938 he was elected president of the World Alliance for International Friendship through the Churches...
Postwar books were popular. Nothing but a wide and deep national interest could account for the extraordinary popularity of Sumner Welles's authoritative but ponderously written treatise on world organization, The Time for Decision, which week after week stayed second only to Bob Hope's I Never Left Home (1,250,000 copies) on the nonfiction best-seller lists and finally topped them...
Persons and Places, by George Santayana, is the famed philosopher's unfinished autobiography. It tells of his boyhood in Spain and the tragic loneliness of his Spanish family in alien Boston, with a very brief account of his years at Harvard-a stoic recital of intellectual hardships written with epicurean felicity...
...seemed more skillful dancers, in general, but the performances were very good throughout. The weak point of the evening was the singing. Although a chubby foursome, the Dowd quartet, gave a good account of themselves, the singing of Miss Dunham; as well as that of guitar-strumming Bobby Capo, could well have been omitted...
Over the Ground. Normal mischances of war could account for some delay. The Philippine roads had deteriorated under Jap occupation; they went from poor to bad under the pounding of U.S. equipment. Surprisingly, many U.S. maps of Leyte turned out to be incomplete or wrong on ground details. But beyond that there was the dogged, slow defense of the Japanese, who fought as though they never hoped to win-or to stop fighting...