Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Star-Spangled Banner is not, and has never had any pretensions of being a martial song. ... It expresses, rather, the deep and reverent feeling inspired in the hearts of a peaceful people when they are confronted with the symbol of the ideals which lie at the basis of their national life...
Those Who Die. When we arrived in Chengchow the snow-covered, rubble-ruined streets seemed full of ghosts in fluttering grey-blue rags. They darted from every alley to screech at us with their hands tucked in their gowns to keep warm. When they die they just lie down in the slush or gutters and give up. We prodded one or two of them gently to see whether they were still alive. The relief committee here is supported almost entirely with American funds, from United China Relief and tries to keep some women & children alive in a relief camp...
...instructor at the School. A hospital and transport chaplain for twelve months during the First World War, he was subsequently for eight years professor of mathematical physics at Fukien Christian University, Foochow, China, where he taught integral and differential calculus in Chinese. Upon his return to this country, lie spent six years as minister of the Sanford (Me.) parish of the Congregational Church and nine years as minister at the Williams College Church at Williamstown...
...tables. They performed in the rain, in halls lit only by torches; once, in a boxing ring. When they lacked a musician, a soldier rapped on a table to keep time for Mitzi's dance. Often under fire, the girls had to interrupt their show one night and lie in a slit trench with a company of soldiers. When the raid ended, they powdered their noses and went on with the show...
Real test of Mr. Crawford's international philosophy will lie in how the National Association of Manufacturers throws its weight when the Hull reciprocal tariff policy comes up for its Congressional test this spring...