Word: inners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beginning of the last chapter, he writes, "It has been fairly fancy of me, I know, to write so long and noisy a book just to say that if we want a better world, we will have to be better people." The way to inner health, according to Wylie, is a reappraisal of what America represents to the individual. Is it merely a chance to make a million without doing very much work, or is it the condition for developing as rich and meaningful an inner life as possible? If we choose the latter alternative, we will have...
Leclerc Over the Desert. Driving northward from interior Africa (the Chad) to threaten Rommel's inner flank was a Fighting French column under one of the heroes of the De Gaullist forces. He was a young Frenchman who was wounded in 1940, twice escaped from the Germans, finally made his way to Fighting French territory in Africa and fought under the nom de guerre of Brigadier General "Jacques Leclerc," apparently to protect relatives in France. Last week his motorized forces, already well over 1,000 miles from their base at Fort Lamy in Chad, seized two Italian posts south...
...glare in the eyes of the Vice Admiral grew unbearably, for His Imperial Majesty the Emperor Hirohito had generously entered. His Majesty expressed words of excruciating praise for Vice Admiral Sunagawa's victories at sea. The Vice Admiral was then admitted into the inner chamber, where he had a divine audience with Her Imperial Majesty the Empress. Their Majesties bestowed on Vice Admiral Sunagawa a crested cup and an unmentionably sacred sum of money. The Vice Admiral retired in deep reverence with beads of perspiration on his forehead...
Great baking ovens occupy one side of the room. Reaching the ceiling, their great tile fronts seem to glower over the whole room. They are heated to a tremendous temperature by gas jets, and when they are opened, the narrow tile inner ovens are incandescant with heat. "Peel poles" 12 to 14 feet in length with wooden paddles on one end are the agents for placing leaves in and removing them from the ovens. In the baking of French bread the crowning touch is the use of steam jets on the hot loaves to produce a perfect crust...
...when projected. But the light from a projector lamp is diverted by the aberration patterns into a conic shape that spreads out over the lens. Charles Birch-Field's iriscope adds the colors-reds in the outer regions of the lens, blues in the inner...