Word: maria
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Musicals which display a lot of beautiful, rounded female flesh are preferred by the troops. Favorite actresses: Lana Turner, Betty Grable, Maria Montez. In the case of these three, the plot and the vintage of the picture do not matter. Least favored of all: war movies...
...their settlement buyers have chosen the name Queen's Acres, in honor of the Virgin Mary. Streets (to be laid out later) will also bear religious names: Santa Maria Place, Regina Lane, Salvatore Place...
Recent camouflage techniques employ the use of natural vegetation in the combat zones. The experimenters from the staffs of the Arnold Arboretum, Harvard forest, Biological Laboratories, and Maria Moors Cabot Foundation for Botanical Research have compiled figures on the "lasting period of cut foliage." Heretofore, the time in which this camouflage material would wilt in the field was unknown by any authorities...
...novels, shreds of biographies, short stories, essays, poems by 140 authors from 21 Continental countries. No British writers are included, but among the great Europeans are: Marcel Proust, Romain Holland, Benedetto Croce, Maxim Gorki, Thomas Mann, Maurice Maeterlinck. Among those less familiar to U.S. readers: Czech Poet Rainer Maria Rilke, Czech Novelist Franz Kafka, Ger man Playwright Ernst Toller, Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno, Russian Novelist Alexei Tolstoi...
...cardiograph of Europe's spiritual crisis is due less to its fragmentary inclusions than to its massive omissions. None of the writing in this anthology has had any pro found influence on the world. Of the books that have really influenced European minds since 1920, Erich Maria Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front and Arnold Zweig's The Case of Sergeant Grischa are not even mentioned; Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf comes under the editors' ban against "fascist elements" in "style and ideology"; books by Lenin and Trotzky (easily the most brilliant writing...