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...builders [of Brideshead] did not know the uses to which their work would descend. . . . Something quite remote from anything [they] intended has come out of their work, and out of the fierce little human tragedy in which I played; something none of us thought about at the time: a small red flame . . . relit before the . . . doors of a tabernacle; the flame which the old knights saw from their tombs, which they saw put out; that flame burns again for other soldiers, far from home, farther in heart, than Acre or Jerusalem. It could not have been...
Strange things were done. The state, hot for progress of a sort, phlegmatically prepared to tear down 21 apartments, a hotel, 382 houses to make way for a new superhighway. There were rumors: Los Angeles heard that hundreds of Japs were about to descend from Tule Lake, seeking bed & board. Then 1,500 members of the Los Angeles Apartment House Association held a meeting to abuse the OPA, ended up by deciding to take no less than 21,474 apartments off the rental market...
Whatever the answer, peace was not likely to descend suddenly on the troubled U.S. industrial front. Beyond wages, there were other reasons for striking. One of them had tied up 242 ships in New York's harbor, another had closed nearly half the nation's bituminous coal mines, and a third was still stirring up bitter battles in Hollywood...
Major Way Stations. The Philippines, notably Luzon, have land masses which were marked, even before Bataan and Corregidor fell, as inevitable staging areas for armies about to descend upon Japan. Yet the U.S. command had only the most tenuous contact with the Philippines two years ago, by submarine or occasional U.S. aircraft landing on a secret strip on Mindanao...
...understood [in orthodox physics] by 'position' and 'space.' I stand at the window of a railway carriage which is traveling uniformly, and drop a stone on the embankment, without throwing it. Then, disregarding the influence of the air resistance, I see the stone descend in a straight line. A pedestrian who observes the misdeed from the footpath notices that the stone falls to earth in a parabolic curve. I now ask: Do the 'positions' traversed by the stone lie 'in reality' on a straight line or on a parabola? Moreover, what...