Word: flows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clothes Modern?" jeers at the world and his wife for wearing symmetrical shoes on unsymmetrical feet, for walking on the punishing pavements of cities when resilient plastic composition would carry weary legs twice as far, for not wearing toga-like clothes-the only truly modern costume, which can flow from machinery like newspapers from presses...
...When the Canadian was brought in, his artery was severed by a bullet and his leg and foot were cold and white. We slipped in a glass tube. . . . The blood started to flow and the foot got warm and pink." Thus, in the antiseptic gloom of a casualty clearing station in Belgium, 30-year-old Major William Thornton Mustard last week described a new surgical trick which he hopes will borrow time for many a war-mangled limb, many a life...
...Allied high command announced that it would soon ship in enough food through Antwerp to insure Belgians a ration of 2,000 calories a day (present ration: a little more than 1,500 calories). By February, Belgians were also promised, raw materials will begin to flow through Antwerp at the rate of at least 5,000 tons a day to start Belgium's idle factories turning out supplies for the Allied armies...
...Newport, and the flag of a new Admiral went up. After almost three years as Commander in Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (CinCLant), efficient, Gothic-faced Admiral Ingersoll had moved on to a new job. By this week he was busy, as commander of the Western Sea Frontier, speeding the flow of ships, men and supplies across the Pacific to Annapolis Classmate Chester W. Nimitz...
...characterization are excellent in "The Late George Apley," but that is about all. The plot lacks substance and sentimental appeal and has none of the warmth that might have rescued it. The effect is always superficial; never once does the tone of the play suggest a smooth or natural flow. Epigrams and quotable witticisms follow in rapid succession, and if the play's continual references to Boston life delight the audiences here, that delight can be expected to diminish to the chuckle stains, on Broadway. Chuckles do not make hits...