Word: counters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Paced in musically broken stanza-sentences, the ode's complicated theme, about which many subsidiary thoughts and counter-thoughts are skillfully woven, develops with unique rhythmic clarity. Brown creates telling poetic figures, uses them interestingly, and achieves by so doing the communication of a soul-stirring idea in its emotional and intellectual entirety...
...time England and Germany are deadlocked. Up to now we have been willing to pour planes and material into the breach in order to help the British in their fight to stave off invasion. But that phase of the war is at an end. Already there is talk of counter-attack by England. Yet it is plain that England can never dislodge the German octopus from the continent of Europe without American aid--millions of American men to fight on the beaches of Brittany and the Channel coast, as well as American ships and planes. And it is equally plain...
University Hall's recent memorandum on the distribution of printed material in the College buildings is a logical development. This past year has seen in dormitory entryways too many smear posters designed to stir up racial prejudice, too much furtive distribution of literary blasts and counter-blasts in the small hours of the morning. For purely practical purposes, then, the Dean's office and the Student Council Committee have done well in attempting to clean house...
...disaster at Lat. 52° N., Long. 32° W. put a gloomy crown upon several weeks of increasingly grave inroads into British shipping. Obscured by the dramatic aerial Battle of Britain, in which the R. A. F. brilliantly held its own, the Axis counter-blockade against Britain began to press in late September, after the Nazis got submarine bases working along the long coast line they took from France in June. Startling was the official British admission last fortnight of 146,528 tons (plus 51,502 neutral tons) lost in the week ended Oct. 21. That disastrous week...
Farther north another spearhead drove toward Fiorina, whence another railway leads to vital Salonika on the eastern coast. Greek counter-raids against this northern drive did get to Albanian soil, and did cause the Italians some embarrassment at their rear...