Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Dartmouth the college runs a beer hall just like a PX where you can go and tear yourself down after you've been building yourself up on the snowy slopes," mumbled Vag to his drinking companion. "But on second thought this isn't so bad." He made a significant gesture towards the glassed-in counter which housed slices of Swiss cheese, salami, bologna, knackwurst, brockwurst, blood pudding and other samples of the Wursthaus larder...
...more typical married-woman's view-point was offered by Mrs. Inez Muhleman, a southerner whose husband is at the Business School. "No, my husband isn't jealous," she claimed, "but then he always has something he can hold over me when I catch him eyeing a passing blonde." A check 15 minutes later found Mr. Muhleman standing behind his wife's desk, looking over all comers...
...still another story, "The Secret," by Miss Ann Allison, everything is there but that final coherence which makes a story come together. It is written well, and with a feeling for character and mood, but it seems to have Implications. Nothing is wrong with Implications, except when it isn't clear what they imply. This adolescent profundity produces the most irritating literature known to man, and "Radditudes" should put up a special mechanism to keep it out. It is a constant threat in the March issue. Especially in the poetry...
...trend is ... away from us. Why is this so? . . . Are we united?" Veteran Campaigner Baldwin thought not, and he thought he saw one of the main reasons. "There are a lot of good men who would like to run for President. We have some darn good candidates, but there isn't a team-at least in the Senate-to help put any one of these fellows across. The greatest help that any candidate could have is a good record-a good record by this Congress-and I mean the whole Congress...
...Josef explained that lack of food isn't the only reason for the miners' lethargy: "It's also because we don't really care. Right now we get more to eat if we mine more, but the coal itself doesn't do us any good. Part of it is exported to Lord knows where, and what should go to our industry doesn't-we're not allowed to produce all the things we need. Where is the stuff to rebuild our homes? Where are the clothes I need for myself and my wife...