Word: commented
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...This is not the fault of the daily newspapers; they print all the news. It is not the fault of the weekly 'reviews' ; they adequately develop and comment on the news. The reason people are uninformed is that no publication has adapted itself to the time which busy men are able to spend on simply keeping informed...
Typical of the Finnish people's melancholy attitude toward their war with Russia was the comment last week of a Finnish soldier in Stockholm: "The Russians have killed our men, the Swedes have taken our children [for shelter during the war] and the Germans have taken our women and our country." President Risto Ryti presumably was aware of this feeling. He was also aware that 75% of Finland's food imports last year came from Germany and that the Reich still has about 100,000 troops in his country. They stand between the Red Army and the rest...
...speak for himself. Dry-eyed sentimentalist, sly humorist, casual reformer, recorder of mutton-headed remarks, he has become the most widely read of British columnists. He has no U.S. parallel. His column, "Sitting On The Fence," is a kind-of literary comic strip, in which various permanent characters comment obliquely or directly on the affairs...
...said that the individual dining rooms will be responsible for collecting the books, and that in all probability periodic checkup will be carried out by inspectors from that office. Aldrich Durant '08, business manager of the University, had no comment to make on the agency's decision, but stated that he had not yet taken action on the matter, as no official directive had been received in Lehman Hall. He added, however, that as soon as some official word was received, he was prepared to take any "necessary step...
...Candid comment of the evening came from a petite and rather dishevelled-looking young lady who said demurely, emerging from Hazens, "My, I'm glad this is over. I always like to know...