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...passed . . . then a future artist will discover beautiful forms for depicting past lawlessness and chaos! Then such [works as this] so long as they are sincere . . . will be of use. . . . They will preserve at any rate some faithful traits by which one may guess what may have lain hidden in the heart of some raw youth of that troubled time...
...death was a particularly hard blow to Deputy Prime Minister Herbert Morrison, whose parliamentary secretary she had been when Morrison was Minister of Home Security in the War Cabinet. Prime Minister Clement Attlee brought the news to him in a hospital where Morrison has lain for three weeks waiting for a blood clot in his leg to dissolve. Said Attlee: "This will just make everything a hell of a lot more difficult...
Fifteen years in and now one year out of the Brazilian dictatorship, shrewd little Getulio had lain low on his southern ranch while his successors bungled the return to democracy, compounded inflation, let Brazilians go hungry. Last week, before a rally of his own Labor Party members in his own cattle-raising state of Rio Grande do Sul, Vargas blamed his downfall on "foreign financial interests," who were jealous of his plans to make Brazil economically independent, let go at President Eurico Caspar Dutra and his Government...
...future use. An elaborate system of controls makes eniac so flexible that its inventors have given up looking for problems it cannot handle. There is plenty of work ahead for eniac, its inventors say. In nearly every science and every branch of engineering, there are proved principles which have lain dormant for years because their use required too much calculation. Example: aircraft designers know how to predict air-drag theoretically, but the job takes so much figuring that they prefer to make scale models and test them-somewhat inaccurately-in expensive wind tunnels. In future, they may rely on eniac...
...almost a year the official Army & Navy reports on Pearl Harbor had lain under cover, marked "Secret." Last week, the excuse was good no longer: President Truman made them public...