Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Holy Ghost Fathers, for example, 26 young priests are at their mission posts in Tanganyika Territory today and eleven more, who worked in this section earlier, are in the U.S. Many of the latter could qualify as teachers of Swahili (the language is more commonly called Kiswahili), for they learned the tongue not only through years of actual practice, but also in the Mission Seminary of the Congregation of the Holy Ghost in Norwalk, Conn. Classes in Kiswahili are conducted there by Rev. Francis J. Fitzgerald, C.S.Sp. who spent twelve years (1927-39) in Bagamoya, East Africa...
...latter point, I feel that we ex-movers of mass merchandise have a really legitimate gripe. Personally, while still not 40, I have created and directed the advertising which has sold billions of dollars worth of food products. Yet letters of application to OFF, OPA, WPB, etc., bring either no reply or a polite "Thank you for your offer of service during the present emergency. We will keep you in mind." Letters to the Army and Naval Reserve bring forth the same reply. Incidentally, no commission was requested, and I don't mean the 15% variety. Recruiting offices? They...
...some weeks the Japanese have been building up two great troop pools. One is at Hankow in central China, the other at Saigon in Indo-China. The latter might be used against India or Australia. But if the Japanese drives now under way are successful, both might be drawn on to crush China-the southern pool to drive toward Chungking from the south; the central pool to push a drive through Sian, severing northern from middle China and cutting off Chiang from his Russian friends. These two moves, undertaken together, would constitute a giant pincers movement on Chungking...
Students are resigned, determined, hopeful and bitter, in that order, but with very, very little of the latter. They know they have a job to do. They are willing to give their lives. There is no evasion, no protest. They are anxious to get all the schooling they can; but if war intervenes, to get the fighting over with and get back to civilization and books. They have confidence, great confidence, in themselves and their pals, that they can take care of their country and themselves in battle...
...whole continents, and have therefore suffered from sketchiness once the author has passed beyond the bounds of his own special field. That Professor Guerard has confined his contribution to the one nation which he knows most intimately is evidence of a modesty only too rare among America's latter-day Nostradamuses...