Word: lowe
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...September 1940 the Panzers had blitzed Denmark and Norway, the Low Countries and France. Adolf Hitler had capered in delight before the camera. Now he waited to caper again as the Luftwaffe battled across the Channel. In her darkest, grandest hour, Britain stood alone...
...weeks in Great Britain had given Union Theological Seminary's Reinhold Niebuhr that high-low opinion of the British and U.S. Army education systems. In last week's Nation he cited chapter and verse, was at his caustic best on the subject of the U.S. Army daily paper Stars & Stripes: It "not only carries baseball box scores but has a daily photo of some glamor queen, usually a Hollywood star . . . presumably for the purpose of providing 'pin-ups.' ... In short, nothing is lacking . . . except serious discussion about the meaning of the war and the best means...
...Normal sexual intercourse is "altogether beneficial," but "a state of chronic low-grade sexual excitement ... is particularly undesirable for the hypertensive...
...page magazine printed in purple ink ("There is no subscription price . . . send a contribution once in a while"), the New Way Prayers (10? each), the Life-Study Fellowship Lessons (25? each or five for $1). Two-thirds of the buyers are women, many elderly, most of them in low-income brackets...
...program, it decided, should lead off with the "V for Victory" theme from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony blown on a trumpet, then fade in with the D Major theme from the Choral Finale of Beethoven's Ninth (played by low strings). After a break for announcement of the occasion, the orchestra should swing into the complete choral finale. The rest of the program should consist of music from various United Nations: China; Britain (represented preferably by German-born Handel's Hallelujah Chorus); France (represented in part by Belgian-born Cesar Franck's Pièce Heroique...