Word: beginnings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...SAME TIME WE'RE AWED BY THE EFFICIENCY OF ALEXANDER PARENTHOOD. WHEN WE TOLD OUR KIDS THAT BABIES CAME FROM INSIDE THEIR MOTHERS, THEY JUST ASKED US HOW THEY GOT IN THERE TO BEGIN WITH. AND MAYBE WE'RE SISSIES, BUT WE'RE DAMNED IF WE'RE GOING TO DEMONSTRATE...
...strike continues until then--and there was nothing to indicate tonight that it would not--steel mills will be closing down, railroads curtailing their service and crippling effects will begin to be felt throughout the country. Already a "brownout" had been ordered in Washington, the seat of government, including the darkening of the Capitol dome...
...Winthrop-Davenport match has been moved up to follow directly after this contest, which is scheduled for 1:45 o'clock, according to Adolph Samborski, director of intramural athletics, who added that the Adams-Saybrook tilt will also begin at 1:45 if possible...
Great Britain's labor government got out of the rubber business last week, thankful that it had lost only the tail of its shirt. After five years of state buying & selling, it declared that the market in rubber would be free: trading will begin next week, private buyers will import crude rubber beginning...
Koestler's deadpan, newspaper style of writing, with its emphasis upon understatement, suggests impartiality and permits objective writing, as in the courtroom and 1939 riot chapters, to gain great emotional force and a continual atmosphere of tension. Unfortunately, Koestler's people disappear just as they begin to become interesting as individuals, but what they have to say and think is vivid and unmistakable. For "Thieves in the Night" is more than mere debate. It is essentially a remarkably exciting narrative presentation of a political philosophy on a high intellectual level that should have appeal for all readers, whether...