Word: accounts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...abstractionists turned out to be abstract in words as well as in paint. The more conservative painters, having less to account for, took a comfortably conservative tone. The best of the bunch, by & large, said the least. Some highlights...
...Thing Happening. The Mountain is not the only religious book in the bestseller ranks. Rivaling it in popularity, though not in caliber, are The Greatest Story Ever Told (Fulton Oursler's rewrite of the New Testament), Lloyd Douglas' The Big Fisherman, and Father James Keller's account of the Christopher movement, You Can Change the World. Some hard-boiled book men are cynical at the suggestion that this betokens a "trend." Said Robert W. Faith of a St. Louis Doubleday bookshop: "Some books on two themes always draw interest . . . those on sex and those on religion...
...America's mission is to vulgarize the world," said Thomas Carlyle. I think he is borne out by your account of the doings in Washington of so-called society under the Democratic Administrations [TIME, March...
British Field Marshal Montgomery fought and won his battles by the book. His own accounts of how he did it are written for soldiers, military historians and armchair strategists. Normandy to the Baltic was Monty's cool, professional account of his considerable part in engineering the defeat of the German armies on the Continent. Now he has backtracked in time and completed his story of World War II with El Alamein to the River Sangro, a brief, coldly competent blueprint of his strategy in North Africa, Sicily and Italy...
There was something synthetic about the advertisements and appeals, the rumors and reports of gigantic nuggets, that set them on their way, and in Author Hulbert's account they seem to be half-aware of it. They persisted nevertheless...