Word: columnized
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...soldiers clung like goats to the rocky hillside, dug into shallow holes, anxiously watched the German positions on the opposite ridge. In the peaceful valley between, where an ancient Roman column stood against the green olive groves of Arab farms, a shell from a U.S. 105-mm. howitzer exploded, sending a white puff rolling up through Faïd Pass...
Certain members of the Stat School detachmen have been heard to voice objection to the statement in last week's Chaplain's column: "Rising at 5:30 o'clock in the morning, every morning, they rush into a schedule which they claim would cause physical breakdowns to men in the other groups stationed at Harvard...
...editorials range swiftly from gloom to sprightliness. In 20 minutes' dictation, he whips off a column croaking fearfully against the New Deal, then charges without hesitation into another column about the peonies in a neighbor's yard. Often, and excusably, he pops with pride, says something about his 42-year-old son, William L. White, whose name is on the Gazette masthead as publisher and who, as a foreign correspondent, has written two recent smash bestsellers: They Were Expendable and Journey for Margaret But most of the time Editorialist White is translating state and national issues into rich...
Sample case histories from the column: "I am 19. ... I foolishly trusted a man whom I met at a picnic. We talked of marriage. Later I found he was married. ... I no longer care for him. But what am I to do about our child? Added to that problem I have met a sailor from Boston who has fallen in love with me. . . . .Shall I have this baby and say nothing to the sailor? He does not know...
...office near Grand Central Station. His 19-year-old son, Jean Lawrence, studies medicine at Columbia University, his 17-year-old daughter, Annizella, takes a voice course at the Juilliard School of Music. Cook has found time to complete a course in short-story writing, also contributes a monthly column to the International Musician (official organ of the American Federation of Musicians) on jazz piano technique...