Word: laterally
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...educational order for two-motored Handley Page Hampden bombers. Before the war started, Canadian Associated, foreseeing business ahead, began constructing two assembly plants, in Toronto and Montreal. Last week, while fuselages, wings and landing gears were coming off the old assembly lines (to be set up later in the Toronto and Montreal plants), it was announced at Ottawa that negotiations were about complete for new British war orders to Canadian Associated. The first order was whispered to be for $20,000,000 worth of bombers, and plenty more later...
...conferred and negotiated, become weary and rusty, vulgar and profane beyond his old habits, worn and frazzled as a castoff garment." He had a theory that war between the States could be stopped by getting a war started with some foreign power (Lincoln's observation on this later was "One war at a time"). On April 1 he sent a memorandum to Lincoln embodying this and other suggestions which implied that "Lincoln was a failure as a President but he, Seward, knew how to be one." One of many Lincoln classics is the gentle but ice-cold reply that...
...prudently chose to fight a war of attrition, never meeting Lee if he could help it without overwhelming superiority in manpower, caused Lincoln a long year of anguish. Yet by resisting for months public and political pressure to remove him, Lincoln allowed him to build a great army; by later reappoint-ing him, again against great pressure, he restored to the army the one favorite and familiar commander under whom it had the spirit to beat off Lee at Antietam...
...occasion offered by his story's end, it lifts up toward something by no means common in U. S. writing. The chapter on Lincoln's assassination and death is surgical in the closeness of its reporting, until it breaks-with powerful effect-into one simple, lyrical sentence. Later...
Dunster and Lowell are leading in the indoor baseball competition. This afternoon at 4 o'clock Adams and Dudley will play, and an hour later Eliot will take on Kirkland...