Word: half-hour
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...course of one half-hour's brooding over his grave, situated in a less frequented portion of the city, I saw two American enlisted men, one American Red Cross worker, two plaid-skirted Scottish lieutenants and two Italian girls come to pay their respects...
Just 100 yards from the outskirts of Sainte Germaine the Germans saw us and walloped a mighty big shell over at us. From the cover of a friendly but too shallow ditch we sat the next half-hour...
...would be an unusual sight. But not in San Francisco's old Whitcomb Hotel (three blocks from the city hall), where a group of some 30 city fathers (seven Roman Catholics, seven Presbyterians, an assortment of other Protestants) meet each Thursday morning for a half-hour's Bible study...
...half-hour film, Humphrey Jennings (The Silent Village, Listen to Britain-TIME, Sept. 13) tells the story of the British "capture" of this German song. He forecasts its future in a long gliding panoramic shot of London's postwar dockside market streets, where a honkytonk version creates an obbligato for a children's merry-go-round. There are adroitly timed stock-shots (best: the men of the supremely confident Afrika Korps riding through the ecstatic farewells of civilians). There are bits of irresistible comedy (best: the florid, juicy Italian-tenor version of the song; the whooping refinement...
...progressed through Bull Moose Republicanism and World War I service in the Meuse-Argonne and St. Mihiel offensives. It lived on in his hearty mule-driver's language and his adoption of T.R.'s "strenuous life," even to a half-hour's vigorous daily exercise until a week before his death. Politically it was manifest in his early mistrust of Roosevelt II (he called for "fewer and better Roosevelts", and in 1936 he was the Republicans' violently anti-New Deal vice-presidential nominee). But in June 1940, Knox and fellow Republican Henry L. Stimson entered Franklin...