Word: clearing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stop & Look. Near Lisco, Neb., Benny Ovido stopped his car on a railroad crossing to make certain the tracks were clear, jumped free just before the car was demolished by a train...
...peculiarity of this reviewer to expect more from imported plays, such as this one, than of our own unproved offerings. (It is sad to note that the only two new exciting plays this season have both come from France--"Red Gloves" and "The Madwoman of Chaillot." There is no clear evidence that "Figure of a Girl" is worthy of its boat fare.) I therefore was disappointed...
...seems clear that Hitler had no consistent program for the navy and that he had a far less coherent plan for the war than he is generally credited with. The most striking revelation of his weakness is in the figures on U-boat losses. When the U.S. entered the war, nearly 250 U-boats were available; in the single month of June 1942, the Germans sank 145 ships. But in the months to come, the tide turned, as anti-submarine measures became effective. In the last four months of the war, with Doenitz running the navy (after Raeder...
...Midsummer Night Madness, wrote a series of haunting stories about it. They had the hard authenticity of firsthand pictures of war and revolution, with none of the drab, repetitious prose that is now almost a trademark of war novels. His themes were as subtle as Turgenev's, with clear and vivid pictures of action, but the distinction of his work was its fine cadenced prose. O'Faoláin's novels, e.g., A Nest of Simple Folk, had much the same quality, but were diffused and blurred by an indistinctness that lay like a mist over setting...
...have to go on is the word--The Word-- of the Council. This is clearly not as it should be. The fact is that the Council had no right to close the meeting, and thereby to withhold information from the student body. The Council constitution says that it "shall issue complete reports covering the business of all meetings" except "when two thirds of a quorum feel that publication of information concerning a subject will be detrimental to the best interests of the College as a whole." It is hard to see how it would have been "detrimental to the best...