Word: goings
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...occupied by godless Russians. But, said a Vatican voice, "even if the Pope fasted and performed self-mortification, he would not be the man to flaunt it in public. One should keep in mind his habitual disposition to piety and mortification. . . . But beyond that, it is not permitted to go without falling into a play of the imagination that may become indiscreet...
...produced this picture in 1930, critics hailed it as one of the few great U. S. films. When Nazis burned the book by Erich Maria Remarque from which the picture was made, the film was revived, again stirred U. S. audiences with its simple record of why men go to war, how they kill, how those who survive spend the time until their turn comes...
Negley Parson, lately in South Africa for the London Daily Mail, was recuperating from an operation in a Copenhagen hospital. Eventually he planned to go to Moscow. Walter Duranty was in Rome. John Gunther had sailed from London, bound for Manhattan to be with his ailing wife. All three had signed to write for the North American Newspaper Alliance; and Duranty hoped he would be among the ten U. S. correspondents to be picked by the British Army Council for front-line service in France...
...blew in its old No. 2 blast furnace. One blast furnace, last relined in 1919, was put in service. Rush orders for refractory brick to reline steel and iron furnaces made Pittsburgh's Harbison-Walker Refractories Co. jump output from 35% to 75 to 80% of capacity and go to work widening its own bottlenecks. Each advance in operations uncovered new weak spots-in soaking pits for semi-finished ingots; in blooming mills preparing ingots for the rolls; in rolls, coilers, shears, handling machinery...
...350th Field Artillery and banged his way from Camp Dix to France and back. On the strictly military phase of his service with the 350th, The Lion's recollections sound like a blend of Caesar's Gallic Wars and Alice in Wonderland. "Very few soldiers volunteered to go up to the front and fire a French 75," he declares, "and of those who did-few returned. The Lion stayed up at the front 33 days without relief, scoring several direct hits on the enemy. As a result of his bravery, he was known as Sergeant William H. Smith...