Word: gettysburg
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...LIEUTENANTS. VOLUME III. GETTYSBURG TO APPOMATTOX-Douglas Southall Freeman-Scribner...
Terse. In Kansas, a circular letter advertising flour observed that the Lord's Prayer was written in 71 words, the first chapter of Genesis in 800, the Gettysburg Address in 267, but "the OPA uses 2,500 words to announce a reduction in the price of cabbage seed." Vocational Guidance. In Manhattan, Selective Service Director McDermott insisted the psychoneurotic discharge from the Army did not necessarily mean mental deficiency, declared: "I know of scores of cases of men earning $5,000 to $40,000 a year who were rejected ... on a diagnosis of psychoneurosis...
...Gettysburg, Pa., Fannie Rager tried & tried to fill out a ration-application blank, finally hanged herself...
...human unhappiness when "all these hearts as of fretted chil dren shall be sooth'd."; The vision began to take form at the meeting point of life & death. The hospitals were halls of agony. Walking through them, visitors fainted. The men who had beaten back Pickett at Gettysburg and been burned when the caissons exploded at Chancellorsville here faced a more deadly menace than rebel marksmen. Whit man brought them oranges, lemons and sugar for lemonade; tobacco, and money...
...Helen Dortch Longstreet, 85-year-old widow of Lieut. General James Longstreet, Robert E. Lee's right-hand man at Gettysburg, turned up as a student in "assembly, fabrication and riveting" at a training school in Marietta, Ga. A tireless individualist* Mrs. Longstreet lives alone at a trailer camp, goes to classes every day from 2 to 11 p.m., hopes to be in an assembly line job by next week. She explained simply: "I couldn't stay out of this...