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When minimum space has been devoted by the press to a speech by the Vice-President of the United States, and when that speech concerns relationships with one of our staunchest allies, thoughts which might mold the future are being black-penciled by the hand of complacency. Two nights ago, Henry A Wallace spoke courageously and objectively to a group of Americans, correlating the aims of Soviet Russia with the basic principles of democracy we have bruited abroad fro decades. But Walface's post-war implications will be discounted by the majority of the American people, only partially because...
...mold lofts, men cut templates (wooden patterns like the paper patterns of a dress) to Gibbs & Cox specifications...
...vastly complicated domain, with its endless problems of supply, intelligence, defense against air raids and life among the unpredictable conquered, Gerd von Rundstedt was born and raised. Facing him and others of his pattern-Junkers Bock, Leeb, Reichenau-the democratic world can be thankful that by now the mold is probably broken. It is unlikely that Adolf Hitler's politics-ridden machine can ever produce the kind of officer that the Reich, from Moltke to Kaiser Wilhelm, poured forth in dazzling profusion...
...days dragged by, monotonous and deadly, rain came and brought drinking water-and raised mold on the hardtack. Benton wove a net of twine. The three men trolled with it, caught fish, which they ate raw. The fish guts they threw into the water lured hungry sharks which, Wajda said, "slapped the raft with their tails and we were afraid it would overturn." Benton began to grow weak. "On the 24th day he died and we put him overboard, mumbling what prayers we could remember. . . . Then Bancroft started to go out of his mind. ... He tried to jump. . . . I grabbed...
...principal dangers to art objects are given as light, dark, heat, flame, sudden and great changes of temperature, blast, mechanical violence, abrasion, dryness, dampness, water, chemicals, smoke and dirt, mold and insects...