Word: isn
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...beer or a flask of Scotch in the 180,000 square miles of Allied New Guinea, some of the thousands of doughboys now fighting in 98° temperature of the north-coast jungles might be able to build up some sort of festive spirit this Christmas. But there isn...
...Radcliffe has fun, it isn't ashamed of its other sides. It was founded and built to raise the level of women's education, and still considers itself primarily an educational institution. Back in 1879 it occurred to some of the better citizens of Cambridge that women might study with Harvard professors; the sponsor wrote Harvard's President Eliot that he hoped to enable women to carry education "further than it is possible for them to do in this country, except possibly at Smith College." (Sic). Harvard professors agreed to help, and a small home at 6 Appian Way soon...
...somewhat vaguely, is this: there is nothing unique about tragedy in 1942 America. The problems of families being torn apart; of bride and groom, fresh from the preacher, being forcibly separated; of living for country or for self; are (to coin a phrase) too much with us. It isn't that the playwrights don't realize what this war means. It is simply that its meaning has become so obvious as to be both platitudinous and commonplace. The stuff of tragedy is rapidly becoming as easy to swallow as water. And even though it might look like...
...Owen Gibson works at Douglas Aircraft's big Long Beach plant, on a "burr bench," where he files the rough edges off machined airplane parts. Says he: "I haven't been so active in the club since working here. This is all-important-the other isn't so important...
...their yellow banner. By ignoring the Administration's announced distinction between political commitments, treaties and economic arrangements as legislation, they give away their intentions to block post-war lend-lease agreements. Nye, swollen with the arrogance of aroused fury has even gone so far as to boast that "there isn't a ghost of a chance of a military-political alliance" after the war, between the United States and Great Britain...