Word: lies
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This week, as Lindbergh got ready to speak in Fort Wayne, Ind., the question in most minds was whether he would retract or repeat his Des Moines attack. Best guess was that he would let it lie. Says Lindbergh: "I never compromise...
That the motion picture industry could stand a good deal of reform is common knowledge. But the way to bring about such reform, does not seem to lie in the direction the present committee is taking. It looks as if the investigators, not the movie-makers are in need of investigation...
There's no use beating the dead; it's best just to let "Viva O'Brien's" book lie anonymous with all of its abortive attempts at humor and hope someone will mercifully bury it. A much cheerier subject is the technical genius which has been employed in the production. Topped by the novel triumph of a swimming pool built into the stage, a colorful and impressive array of no less than a dozen distinct scenes is presented--effective enough in themselves to keep a normal audience awake. The presence of the afore-mentioned body of water is thoroughly exploited...
...industrial area of the central Ukraine was now lost to the Russians, and the invader pressed on for the vital Donets basin, where most of Russia's coal and much of its remaining industry lie. This push seemed to be developing in the familiar pattern: two prongs reaching out to encircle and squeeze. One hit for Kharkov, the Ukraine's second city. The other struck southeast along the coast to the Sea of Azov...
Often it takes several years before the Genus Harvardianus sees the light and follows Horace Greeley's advice. Somewhere off in the wilds of New England lie Smith and Bennington, the one 90 miles away, the other 200. Then, just across the state border lies the third of the green field trio, Vassar, 213.5 miles from Cambridge. These three colleges are inhabited by Powers-worthy beauties and an unfortunate number of Yale, Princeton, Amherst, Williams, and Dartmouth men. Their very difficulty of attainment lends them a charm...