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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...call as announced Monday were substantially the same as had been announced last December, but few people expected the order to call men to come as soon as it did. As late as last week a western college president with information from Washington picked April 15 as the earliest date...
...shall a sensitive artist with a rich background in the fairly stable tradition of the nineteenth century write about a society where public values have broken down almost completely, and even personality is in flux? The critic traces Virginia Woolf's attempt at a solution, from her earliest novels, through her boldly experimental short stories, to the great achievements of her middle period, and the less successful attempts of her later years, which were carried off by sheer virtuosity in her command of language. He shows how she introduced the lyric element into the novel, turning from the epic style...
Priorities on U.S. machinery still have to be arranged and the earliest that mining could commence would be 1944. Proven reserves now amount to 32,000,000 tons, but if the bed is 3,000 ft. deep-which engineers hold not unlikely-the deposit would run close to a half a billion tons (or about half the Mesabi's 1.2 billions); and in this case Canada, which now consumes about 2,000,000 tons of ore per year and imports most of it, will almost certainly become an exporter...
...Seabrook's earliest boyish pleasures had been to gaze at pictures of women in chains. One day Grandmother Seabrook had shown him "a throne on which a girl sat, robed in green . . . her ankles bound by shining metal circlets joined by a gleaming chain." Young Seabrook pressed his hands against her ankles "until my own hands held and drew the chains tighter." From that time on, William had two ambitions-to be a writer like his grandfather (editor of the American Sentinel) and to chain women. As a boy he lassoed little girls. As a man he spent...
...were given the opportunity to express their opinion on U.S. foreign policy. The question voted on in 340 of the state's 487 precinets follows: "Shall the Representatives in the General Court from this district be instructed to vote the request the President and Congress to call at the earliest possible moment a convention of Representatives of all free peoples to frame a Federal Constitution under which they may unite in a Democratic World Government?" Vote in favor of Democratic World Federation: 140,967. Against: 46,882. The fact that most of the local politicians running for office had opposed...