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...does once a year, out from his Cambridge retirement crept crotchety, cantankerous Emeritus Professor Charles Townsend ("Copey") Copeland, 80. to read to 400 Harvard freshmen. He asked some questions about Gulliver's Travels and Henry Esmond. The students' replies showed that they did not know very much about either Swift or Thackeray. Moaned "Copey": "Gentlemen, I pray...
This anachronistic force tagged along behind a string of Free French tanks and trucks as it crept into southernmost Libya. The caravan pushed 200 miles across the desert to el-Gatrún, which the Free Frenchmen took without so much as seeing an Italian. They went 100 miles further to the more important outpost of Múrzuch, where there was both garrison and airport. When the Free French were sighted, all the Italians went into the post and shut the gates tight. The Free French men surrounded the post in mock siege, spent a day leisurely destroying hangars...
...triple blast of land artillery, air bombs and shelling from ships opened. Sappers went out to grade the tank ditch and kill land mines. Tanks poured through, wagging their tails of infantry behind them. Some Aussies crept ahead under cross-curtain of tank and machine-gun fire to cut barbed-wire entanglements. Then the full power of attack brushed past pillboxes, deployed back and crushed them from behind. That accounted for the outer semicircle. For the inner, the process was the same. By noon both had been broken. By sunset the attackers had pushed eight miles to the heights looking...
...successive weeks from mid-August, the index of 28 spot prices crept up 12% to a point 18% above pre-war levels, only 8% below the previous fall's false war boom. But whereas 1939's false boom was really confined to raw commodity prices, 1940's advance carried up practically all prices of manufactured goods. By mid-November, when the spot-price index was still under its September 1939 peak, the Bureau's much broader index of 863 wholesale prices had passed the 1939 peak, was up to 79.7% of its 1926 average. In short...
...Government. He began putting his dreams of Utopia into effect by redistributing land to the peasants, nationalizing the railroads, expropriating foreign oil concessions. But his espousal of the little man brought the full power of the militaristic Right against him. As he fought off the Right the militant Left crept in behind him. Vicente Lombardo Toledano, secretary of the CTM (Confederation of Mexican Workers), began pumping Communism into the administration...