Word: fitfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...poems, beginning with "M," which includes the author's two initials and the Roman numeral for 1000. In his brief foreword Moore describes this as "a set of notes, memoranda, indices, jottings, case-histories, mal-adjustments and occasional solutions. When the work is completed the sonnets will finally fit into place, shaping the autobiography of a person of the period...
...quiet and secure resting place, have seized upon communism, pacifism, fascism and turned them into the little pink elephants which many of his indulgent readers find on their walls. In truth he has become embittered because he has been unable to settle into a political philosophy which would snugly fit the changing world. it irks him that he cannot objectify what suits him personally, that he can find nothing static, nothing permanent, nothing resembling the unity and coherence of medieval times. Thus it was that he made out of President Roosevelt's masterfully worded and perfectly times Message...
Mildred Walker says she began writing at the age of seven. From the time she was 12, she was periodically embarrassed by the village postmaster in Grafton, Vt., where her family spent its summers. Mildred's rejected manuscripts were too bulky to fit the family postbox, and the postmaster handed the packages out to her personally...
...queasy readers it may provide a sensation something like that of sitting in an operating amphitheatre for the first time. Readers with steadier stomachs will follow with interest such clinical details as the sensations of Dr. Norton's wife when she is having an uncontrollable laughing fit, and when she realizes she can never be cured...
...initial phase will provide primary training by commercial instructors in rented planes for 300 physically fit college students. If the experiment works well, and Congress appropriates some $9,800,000 a year to enlarge and continue the program, 20,000 new fledgling pilots (less casualties) may be turned out each year. Secondary objective, stressed more by the President than by CAA, is that the plan will create a reserve of fledglings who after 50 hours in the air will not be so green as the youngsters who enroll annually for Army training at Randolph Field...