Word: latters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...know much about General Baron Mannerheim, but I am sure a real old general is more fit for commanding an army than an ex-sergeant-major, but of course the latter is only a figurehead...
...other hand, if such an air offensive failed to succeed, and succeed soon, she would have incurred the strategic disadvantage of greatly widening the path and increasing the scope for the Allied air forces which would become an increasing boomerang with every stage of the latter's growth. She would also immediately simplify the British naval blockade...
...went: "Always look ahead, always go ahead without regard for what is happening to left or right of you." He inspected newly arrived troops near Grenzach, just across the border from Switzerland. Their mustering had been sufficiently alarming to the Swiss General Staff to make the latter call up two new classes (36-and 37-year-olds). At week's end Switzerland had 450,000 men under arms-as many as in November, when the Swiss had their first big here's-where-Hitler-will-strike scare...
There may be a few mechanical difficulties to overcome. Some lecturers prepare a full manuscript, while others speak very informally. In the latter case someone would have to take shorthand notes, but this would be permissible in a magazine frankly devoted to reproducing talks just as they are given. Informality would have to be the keynote of such a publication. Ranging over widely varied fields of interest, the choice of lectures should and could aim at popular consumption. As John Mason Brown has put it, they ought to "stand on their feet--not on their footnotes...
...remarks on the Mozart G Minor (as done by Toscanini) are applicable here: Excessive speed does not make for clarity; drive on the conductor's part can and does obscure many of the details. Of the two readings, Toscanini or Furtwaengler, we unhesitatingly recommend the latter, for, while its vigorously dramatic and vital treatment may shatter your ideas on the interpretation of the symphony (the conventional Weingartner rendition, nevertheless, Furtwaengler's musical integrity stands unquestioned, aside from the fact that the recording is superior...