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...Astronomer Powell occasionally ascertains by a glance through his spare telescope), all undressed and no place to go. Then star-crossed Miss Lamarr falls into the hands of a female astrologer (Fay Bainter) who predicts the coming of an Ideal Lover so convincingly that Miss Lamarr mistakes the handiest air-raid warden (James Craig) for journey...
Along the coast of New Britain, U.S. Marines have been proving that old ways can still be effective ways. Fire is one of the handiest of all weapons for getting the Jap out of his carefully revetted bunkers or sealing him in forever. The fire is thrown from the Army's improved portable flamethrower, which is superior to anything the Jap is known to have, more easily maintained, simpler, unaffected by tropic damp...
...seaport. Boston Harbor is deep. Railheads are at water's edge. There are plenty of piers, cranes, warehouses for handling cargoes; plenty of trained labor. But last week, while other Atlantic ports were chockablock with war supplies, Boston docks and warehouses were empty.* The nation's handiest harbor on the Eastern Seaboard was a ghost port...
...Prime Minister Fadden his new job is perfect evidence of his prime political ability to be at the right place at the right time. Last September, after only four years in Parliament, he was the handiest man around when the Country Party leadership split. Put in as Party Leader as a compromise, he did such a good job politically and as Australia's Treasurer that he is now solidly in command of the Party...
...words (the Oxford English Dictionary has 414,825), claimed that it would tell even a college-educated person what he needed to know 999 times out of 1,000. Illustrated with drawings and some 15,000 sentences showing how words are used, the dictionary is simple, easy to use. Handiest short cut: an inverted e (a), called the schwa (from Hebrew), takes the place of eight symbols customarily used to represent the same sound-the unaccented vowel in about, pencil, lemon, etc. On his definition of hearing Dr. Thorndike wasted no big words: "Sense by which sound is perceived...