Word: closers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...subject-of-the-week: What About Russia? In striking contrast to the ostrich-like actions of the British Press, the Liberal L'Oeuvre debated openly with Rightist papers whether France should break with "Germany's friend" the Soviet Union while they were at the same time urging closer ties with "Germany's friend" Fascist Italy. It looked to L'Oeuvre as though the French Rightists were picking their foreign friends and foes along suspiciously ideological lines. Socialist ex-Premier Leon Blum's Le Populaire said the "proper attitude" was that outlined last month by British...
...idea, "geometry is beautiful," without detracting from the central idea by using in his work people and extraneous matter, for he is a literal painter, and an idea such as the one suggested cannot be fully expressed in a literal manner. It requires what Plato would call a closer approach to the essence of a thing, in short, abstraction. So we see that the abstract method is primarily an intellectual way of painting, designed to express certain aspects of life and the world which can be only laboriously touched upon if the older, more accepted manner of painting is employed...
...these thoughts flashed pell-mell through 75,000 minds, the thudding hoofs were coming closer. By the grandstand they flashed: Austin Taylor's Whichcee in front, Seabiscuit half a length behind. Rounding into the backstretch, the old trouper kept up with Whichcee's swift pace. Down the long stretch, silhouetted against the purple Sierra Madres, the Biscuit seemed glued to Whichcee's tail. Louder & louder the crowd roared as they seesawed coming into the homestretch-Seabiscuit nosing in front, then falling back, then in front again. Approaching the grandstands, Red Pollard flipped his whip and the Biscuit...
...News's record for foreign coverage could be found in the fact that last year ten U. S. and Canadian papers contracted to buy its dispatches from abroad. Last week, too late for Editor Mirt's annual edition, the London Daily Telegraph (4,000 miles closer to the front than is the News) signed up for the same service...
Meanwhile, the Yardling team remained undefeated by edging a strong M.I.T. outfit at its gymnasium, 15 to 12. The meet was even closer than the final result indicates, for the Freshmen won each division by a score of only 5 to 4. Vaughan, Adler, Katze, and Robinson were the outstanding Crimson fencers...