Word: add
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next day the Jap had two more air-raid alarms, and this week he still hissed with dismay. He sacked the chief of the home command, Lieut. General Akira Muto, and he filled the air with illogical or contradictory blasts which only seemed to add to the magnitude of the bombers' success. Contradicting his story that only schools and hospitals had been hit, a Tokyo dispatch (via Berlin) announced that the Government would pay to rebuild the industrial plants that had been damaged. More important, he said that the raiders were twin-motored North American B-25s and that...
...Anglo-Canadians Minister Ilsley's words sounded like simple common sense. The real question is how the 3,000,000 French Canadians will vote. In 1918 there were draft riots in the Province of Quebec; there have been draft riots there again this year; and the plebiscite will add little to national unity if the French vote isolationist and Quebec turns thumbs down on conscription...
...book thus touted is Manuel Komroff's In the Years of Our Lord (Harper; $2.50), a new novel about the life of Christ to add to the brief fiction shelf which includes Lew Wallace's Ben Hur (over 2,000,000 copies since 1880), George Moore's pale The Brook Kerith (1916), Bruce Barton's Rotarian The Man Nobody Knows (1925) and Sholem Asch's lush The Nazarene (1939). (Some would include Kenan's famed Vie de Jesus...
...learned gathering in London last week a Yugoslav made a scene, but no one was embarrassed for him. Dr. Milan Grol, Yugoslavia's Minister of Education, was speaking to 230 educators from 16 countries, convened to add a "Children's Charter" to the Atlantic Charter...
...Indian government, when the necessary unification is impeded by the hostility of the six hundred native states, and by the minority Moslem faction towards the majority Hindu party. The great divergence of religious ideals, the existence of 15 major languages, add to the problems that will be posed later...